The architecture produced between 1700 and 1800 represents a classic perfection which no later age has equaled. The first half of the eighteenth century was pervaded by the spirit of the Baroque, epitomized most completely in palaces and churches: Schonbrunn in Vienna, the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, the dazzling theatrical churches and Residenzes of Germany and Central Europe. After 1750 architecture turned away from Baroque toward Neo-classicism, whose most characteristic types included private houses, institutional buildings and planned towns--Bath, Philadelphia and Washington, with their theaters, museums, hospitals and banks. Summerson provides a succinct and elegant summary of the entire period, bringing into focus not only the stunning beauty of these buildings, but also the background of ideas from which they sprang.
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This is a useful opening survey of the architecture of this period. It is now quite old and has been largely superseded by numerous individual studies of buildings, period, and architects (including, for example, recent treatments of Ledoux and Boullée). It is basically satisfactory on the primary stylistic trends of the period but privileges English architecture a little too highly. The partition of the eighteenth century into basically Baroque and Neo-Classical, while conceded to be too widely drawn, means that some things fall through the cracks - Roman architecture of the first half of the eighteenth century receives poor exposure (actually, Italian architecture is treated in scant detail) as does the origins of the Picturesque movement, which was influential in the Gothic revival. As usual, Summerson writes in a friendly, jargon free style suitable for lovers of this period in architectural history.
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