Acknowledgments.

General Introduction.

Part I: Classicism and the Renaissance.

A. The Classical and Medieval Traditions.

Introduction.

1. Vitruvius.

from De architectura,Book 1 (c.25 B.C.).

2. Vitruvius.

from De architectura, Book 2 (c.25 B.C.).

3. Vitruvius.

from De architectura, Book 3 (c.25 B.C.).

4. Vitruvius.

from De architectura, Book 4 (c.25 B.C.).

5. Old Testament.

from I Kings.

6. Old Testament.

from The Book of Ezekiel (c.586 B.C.).

7. New Testament.

from The Revelation of Jesus Christ to Saint John (c.95 A.D.).

8. Abbot Suger.

from The Book of Suger, Abbot of Saint-Denis (c.1144).

9. William Durandus.

from Rationale divinorum officiorum (1286).

B. Renaissance and Baroque Ideals.

Introduction.

10. Antonio di Tuccio Manetti.

from The Life of Brunelleschi (1480s).

11. Leon Battista Alberti.

from De re aedificatoria, Prologue and Book I (1443-1452).

12. Leon Battista Alberti.

from De re aedificatoria, Book 6.

13. Leon Battista Alberti.

from De re aedificatoria, Book 9.

14. Il Filarete.

from Book I of untitled treatise on architecture (1461-3).

15. Il Filarete.

from Book VIII of untitled treatise on architecture.

16. Sebastiano Serlio.

from Book 3, De antiquita (1540).

17. Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola.

from Preface to Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura (1562).

18. Palladio.

from I quattro libri dell'architettura (1570).

19. Juan Bautista Villalpando.

from In: Ezekielem Explanationes (1604).

20. Georgio Vasari.

from Preface to Le vite de piu eccellenti architetti, pittori, et scultori italiani (1550, 1568).

21. Georgio Vasari.

from "Life of Michelangelo" in Le vite de piu eccellenti architetti, pittori, et scultori italiani (1550, 1568).

22. Peter Paul Rubens.

from Preface to Palazzi di Genova (1622).

Part II: Classicism in France and Britain.

A. French Classicism: Ancients and Moderns.

Introduction.

23. René Descartes.

from Regulae ad Directionen Ingenii (1628).

24. Roland Fréart de Chambray.

from Preface to Parallele de l'architecture antique et de la moderne (1650).

25. Paul Fréart de Chantelou.

from Diary of the Cavaliere Bernini's Visit to France (1665).

26. François Blondel.

from "Discours pronounce par Mr Blondel a l'ouverture de l'Academie d'Architecture" (1671).

27. François Blondel,.

from Cours d'architecture (1675).

28. René Ouvrard.

from Architecture harmonique (1677).

29. Claude Perrault.

annotations to French translation of Les dix livres d'architecture de Vitruve (1673).

30. François Blondel.

from Cours d'architecture, Vol. II (1683).

31. Claude Perrault.

from Les dix livres d'architecture de Vitruve, second edition (1684).

32. Claude Perrault.

from Ordonnance des cinq espèces de colonnes selon la méthode des Anciens (1683).

33. Jean-François Félibien.

from Preface to Recueil historique de la vie et des ouvrages des plus célebres architectes (1687).

34. Charles Perrault.

from Preface to Parallèle des anciens et des modernes en ce qui regarde les arts et les sciences (1688).

35. Charles Perrault (1688-97).

from "Dessin d'un portail pour l'Église de Sainte-Geneviève à Paris" (1697).

36. Michel de Frémin.

from Mémoires critiques d'architecture (1702).

37. Jean-Louis de Cordemoy.

from Nouveau traité de toute l'architecture (1706, 1714).

B. British Classicism and Palladianism.

Introduction.

38. Henry Wotton.

from The Elements of Architecture (1624).

39. Christopher Wren.

from Tract I on architecture (mid-1670s).

40. Christopher Wren.

from Tracts II and IV on architecture (mid-1670s).

41. Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury.

from Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711).

42. Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury.

from "A Letter Concerning Design" (1712).

43. Colin Campbell.

Introduction to Vitruvius Britannicus, Vol. I (1715).

44. Nicholas Du Bois.

Translator's Preface to The Architecture of A. Palladio (1715).

45. William Kent.

"Advertisement"to The Designs of Inigo Jones (1727).

46. James Gibbs,.

Introduction to A Book of Architecture (1728).

47. Robert Morris.

from An Essay in Defence of Ancient Architecture (1728).

48. Alexander Pope.

from Of False Taste (1731).

49. Isaac Ware.

"Advertisement" to Andrea Palladio: The Four Books of Architecture (1737).

50. Robert Morris.

from "An Essay upon Harmony" (1739).

Part III: Neoclassicism and the Enlightenment.

A. Early Neoclassicism.

Introduction.

51. Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach.

from Preface to Entwurf einer historischen Architektur (1721).

52. Voltaire.

from Lettres philosophiques sur les anglais (1733).

53. Jacques-Gabriel Soufflot.

from "Mémoire sur les proportions de l'architecture" (1739).

54. Jacques-Gabriel Soufflot.

from "Mémoire sur l'architecture gothique" (1741).

55. Carlo Lodoli.

from Notes for a projected treatise on architecture (c.1740s).

56. Baron de Montesquieu.

from Preface to L'Esprit des Lois (1748).

57. Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

from Discours sur les sciences et les arts (1750).

58. Jean Le Rond D'Alembert.

from "Discours préliminaire des editeurs" (1751).

59. Jacques-François Blondel.

from "Architecture" in Diderot's Encyclopédie (1751).

60. Charles-Étienne Briseau.

from Preface to Traité du beau essentiel dans les arts (1752).

61. Marc-Antoine Laugier.

from Essai sur l'architecture (1753).

62. Marc-Antoine Laugier.

from Essai sur l'architecture (1753).

63. Isaac Ware.

from A Complete Body of Architecture, Chapter II (1756).

64. Isaac Ware.

from A Complete Body of Architecture, Chapter IX (1756).

65. William Chambers.

from A Treatise on Civil Architecture (1759).

66. William Chambers.

from A Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture (1791).

B. Greece and the Classical Ideal.

Introduction.

67. James Stuart and Nicholas Revett.

From "Proposals for publishing an accurate description of the Antiquities of Athens" (1748).

68. Robert Wood and James Dawkins.

from The Ruins of Palmyra (1753).

69. Johann Joachim Winckelmann.

from Gedanken über die Nachahmung der griechischen Werke in der Mahlerey und Bildhauer-Kunst (1755).

70. Allan Ramsay.

from "A Dialogue on Taste" in The Investigator (1755).

71. Julien-David Leroy.

from Les Ruines des plus beaux monuments de la Grece (1758).

72. Julien-David Leroy.

from Les Ruines des plus beaux monuments de la Grece (1758).

73. James Stuart and Nicholas Revett.

from the Preface to The Antiquities of Athens (1762).

74. Johann Joachim Winckelmann.

from Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums (1764).

75. Johann Joachim Winckelmann.

from Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums (1764).

76. Johann Joachim Winckelmann.

from Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums (1764).

77. Giovanni Battista Piranesi.

from Osservazioni sopra la letter de Monsieur Mariette (1765).

78. Giovanni Battista Piranesi.

from Parere su l'architettura (1765).

79. Giovanni Battista Piranesi.

from "An Apologetical Essay in Defence of the Egyptian and Tuscan Architecture" (1769).

C. Character and Expression.

Introduction.

80. Germain Boffrand.

from Livre d'architecture (1745).

81. Étienne Bonnot de Condillac.

from Essai sur l'origine des connaissances humaines (1746).

82. Julien-David Leroy.

from Histoire de la disposition et des formes differentes que les chréstiens ont données à leur temples (1764).

83. Jacques-François Blondel.

from Cours d'architecture (1771).

84. Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières.

from Le génie de l'architecture (1780).

85. Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières.

from Le génie de l'architecture (1780).

86. Jean-Louis Viel de Saint-Maux.

from Lettres sur l'architecture des anciens et celles des modernes (1787).

87. A. C. Quatremère de Quincy.

from Encyclopédie méthodique (1788).

88. Étienne-Louis Boullée.

from Architecture, essai sur l'art (c.1794).

89. Étienne-Louis Boullée.

from Architecture, Essai sur l'art (c.1794).

90. Claude Nicolas Ledoux.

from L'architecture considérée sous le rapport de l'art, des moeurs et de la législation (1804).

91. John Soane.

from Royal Academy Lectures on Architecture (V and XI; 1812-15.

Part IV: Theories of the Picturesque and Sublime.

A. Sources of the Picturesque.

Introduction.

92. John Locke.

from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690).

93. William Temple.

from "Upon the Gardens of Epicurus; or, of Gardening in the Year 1685" (1692).

94. John Vanbrugh.

Letter to the Duchess of Marlborough (1709).

95. Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury.

from "The Moralists" (1709).

96. Joseph Addison.

from The Spectator (1712).

97. Robert Castell.

from The Villas of the Ancients Illustrated (1728).

98. Batty...