Harper's Fine Arts Series is intended to provide for the student and the general reader concise but authoritative histories of architecture, sculpture, and painting. During the last twenty years the study of the monuments of the past has been pursued with constantly increasing thoroughness by a great number of well-trained scholars. Hundreds of books and articles devoted to individual artists, to single monuments or groups of monuments, or to special periods have appeared, which have greatly modified the generalizations and theories of a generation or even a decade ago. The spade of the excavator has added many new and important monuments to those already known, and brought to light new evidence on disputed points. Most of the older handbooks, therefore, are "out of date" in many respects, and some of those more recently published repeat traditional statements which have, in many cases, been proved incorrect. It has been the endeavor of the writers of this series to consider all theTable of Contents Editor's Introduction xvii; Authors' Preface xxi; I The Elements of Architecture I; II Prehistoric Architecture 8; III Preclassical Architecture n; IV Greek Architecture 49; V Roman Architecture 103; VI Early Christian Architecture 159; VII Byzantine Architecture 183; VIII Romanesque Architecture 217; IX Gothic Architecture 275; X Renaissance Architecture 344; XI Post-Renaissance Architecture 401; XII Modern Architecture 460; XIII American Architecture 524; XIV Eastern Architecture 572; Glossary 589; Index 605About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurate