L'Architecture Byzantine en France : Saint-Front de Perigueux et les Eglises a Coupoles de l'Aquitaine.

VERNEILH, Felix de.

Edité par Paris: Librarie Archeologique de Victor Didron, 1851.

A propos de cet article

4to., (10 4/8 x 8 4/8 inches). Engraved frontispiece and 19 plates (some spotting). Contemporary red morocco backed marbled paper boards (extremities a little scuffed). Provenance: with the engraved architectural bookplate of A. Berard on the front paste-down. First edition. The history of the church of St. Front of Périgueux has given rise to numerous discussions between archæologists and architects as to its origins. Félix de Verneihl, as here, claims "that St. Front was a copy of St. Mark's (Venice); Quicherat, that it was copied from the church of the Holy Apostles of Constantinople. M. Brutails is of opinion that if St. Front reveals an imitation of Oriental art, the construction differs altogether from Byzantine methods. The dates 984-1047, often given for the erection of St. Front, he considers too early; he thinks that the present church of St. Front was built about 1120-1173, in imitation of a foreign monument by a native local school of architecture which erected the other domed buildings in the south-west of France" (Catholic Encyclopedia online).

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: L'Architecture Byzantine en France : Saint-Front de Perigueux et les Eglises a Coupoles de l'Aquitaine.
• Éditeur: Paris: Librarie Archeologique de Victor Didron, 1851.
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Architecture
  • France