Architecture and the after-life / Howard Colvin
by Colvin, Howard (1919-2007)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0300050984
- ISBN 13
- 9780300050981
- Seller
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About This Item
New Haven : Yale University Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description : xi, 418 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 27 cm. Notes : Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-402) and index. Contents : Megalith and tumulus -- The mausoleum of Halicarnassus -- The mausolea of the Roman emperors -- The Romans and their monuments -- From mausoleum to martyrium -- Christian burial and medieval church architecture -- The revival of the architectural tomb -- Chantries and funerary churches in medieval Europe -- The family chapel in Renaissance Italy -- Triumphal tombs and the counter-Reformation -- The princely burial church in Catholic Europe -- The family chapel in Protestant England and Sweden -- The return of the mausoleum -- Funerary architecture in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries -- The triumph of the cemetary. Subjects : Mausoleums. Sepulchral monuments. Church architecture.Religious architecture. Confessions (Tombeaux).
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- Bookseller
- MW Books Ltd. (IE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 379177
- Title
- Architecture and the after-life / Howard Colvin
- Author
- Colvin, Howard (1919-2007)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0300050984
- ISBN 13
- 9780300050981
- Publisher
- New Haven : Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven
- Date Published
- 1991
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