Architecture

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Introduction: What Architecture is—Materials
employed—Definition of distinctive features of
the two main styles, Trabeated and Arcuated

I. Egyptian, Asiatic, and Early American Architecture 7

II. Greek Architecture 13

III. Roman Architecture 22

IV. Early Christian Architecture 31

V. Byzantine and Saracenic Architecture 36

VI. Romanesque Architecture 45

VII. Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman Architecture 52

VIII. Gothic Architecture in Europe 60

IX. Gothic Architecture in Great Britain 72

X. Renaissance Architecture in Europe 83

XI. Renaissance Architecture in Great Britain 88