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Claude Perrault of 17th. Façade of the Louvre; chapel of Sceaux ; chapel
France.
of Notre Dame in the church of the Petits
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Bridge over the Charente at Saintes; gate of
S. Denis at Paris; repair and decorations of
the gates of S. Antoine and S. Bernard.
Wings of St. Cloud; church of the nunnery of
Port Royal; hotels of Gevres and Beauvais.
Sorbonne, Palais Royal, S. Roch, Val de Grace,
were erected by him after the designs of
Mansard.

Designed Aldersgate, London; was an architect
and sculptor.

St. Paul's; city of London after the Fire;
Hampton Court; Greenwich Hospital, &c.

The Old Bethlem Hospital in Moorfields; Ashe's Alms-houses; British Museum. He was associated with Wren. He gave a plan for rebuilding London after the Fire.

One of the last architects of St. Peter's.

Dome des Invalides; Gallerie du Palais Royal;
the Place de Louis le Grand; that des Vic-
toires, &c. He was the nephew of Francis
Mansard.

Three sides of the quadrangle of Christ's
Church, called Peckwater Square, chapel of
Trinity College, and church of All Saint's, at
Oxford.

Many churches and palaces.

Blenheim House; Castle Howard, Yorkshire;
Eastberry, Dorset; King's Weston, near Bris-
tol; St. John's Church, Westminster; the
Opera House of the time.

Buildings near Turin on the Superga; church
del Carmine; an interior staircase to the palace
at Turin; employed on works in Portugal;
finished cupola of Sant' Andrea, Mantua; fa-
çade of Duomo at Milan; palace of the Count
Birago di Borghe at Turin, and numberless
other works.

Wanstead House, Mereworth. Compiler of the "Vitruvius Britannicus."

He continued the Dôme des Invalides; finished the chapel of Versailles; and raised the new buildings at St. Denys.

Designed the church of St. George, Bloomsbury, and St. Anne, Limehouse.

L'Hôtel de Vendome, in the Rue d'Enfer at Paris. He was employed much in Russia by Peter the Great.

Corsini Chapel, &c., Rome.

Theatre Verona; theatre at Vienna. Author of two books on Architecture

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ARCHITECTURE. The art of building according to certain proportions and rules determined and regulated by nature and taste. As the art, in its various parts, is the subject of this work, we do not here consider further definition necessary. For origin and progress, see Book I. Chap. I. Sect. 2.; different species at early period, Book I. Chap. I. Sect. 3.

ARCHITECTURE, ARABIAN or SARACENIC, Book I. Chap. II. Sect. 10.

BABYLONIAN, Book I. Chap. II. Sect. 3.

BRITISH, EARLY PERIOD, Book I. Chap. III. Sect. 1.

BYZANTINE and ROMANESQUE, Book I. Chap. II. Sect. 14.
CELTIC and DRUIDICAL. See DRUIDICAL.

CYCLOPEAN. See PELASGIC.

CHINESE, Book I. Chap. II. Sect. 8.

DRUIDICAL and CELTIC, Book I. Chap. II. Sect. 1.

EGYPTIAN, Book I. Chap. II. Sect. 7.

EARLY ENGLISH, Book I. Chap. III. Sect. 3.

ELIZABETHAN, Book I. Chap. III. Sect. 6.

ETRUSCAN, Book I. Chap. II. Sect. 12.

FRENCH, Book I. Chap. II. Sect. 17.

FLORID ENGLISH or TUDOR, Book I. Chap. III. Sect. 5.

OF GEORGE I., Book I. Chap. III. Sect. 8.

OF GEORGE II., Book I. Chap. III. Sect. 9.

OF GEORGE III., Book I. Chap. III. Sect. 10.

GERMAN, Book I. Chap. II. Sect. 18.

GRECIAN, Book I. Chap. II. Sect. 11.

INDIAN, Book I. Chap. II. Sect. 6.

ITALIAN, Book I. Chap. II. Sect. 16.

JAMES I. to ANNE, Book I. Chap. III. Sect. 7.

ARCHITECTURE, JEWISH, Book I. Chap. II. Sect. 5.

MEXICAN, Book I. Chap. II. Sect. 9.

NORMAN, Book I. Chap. III. Sect. 2.

ORNAMENTED ENGLISH, Book I. Chap. III. Sect. 4.
PELASGIC and CYCLOPEAN, Book. I. Chap. II. Sect. 2.
PERSEPOLITAN, Book I. Chap. II. Sect. 4.

POINTED, Book I. Chap. II. Sec. 15.
ROMAN, Book I. Chap. II. Sect. 13.

RUSSIAN, Book I. Chap. II. Sect. 20.

SPAIN and PORTUGAL, Book I. Chap. II. Sect. 19.

ARCHITECTURE, WORKS ON. It would too far extend this work to print a list of these, but we here insert

A Catalogue of the principal and most useful Works to the Student of Architecture, arranged under the several Classes of

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Aberdeen's, Earl of, Inquiry into the Principles of Beauty in Grecian Architecture. 8vo. London, 1822.

Aikin's, E., Essay on the Doric Order. Imperial folio. London, 1810.
Antiquities (the unedited) of Attica, comprising the Architectural Remains of Eleusis,
Rhamnus, Sunium, and Thoricus. By the Society of Dilettanti, and edited by
Wilkins, Gandy Deering, and Bedford. Imperial folio, 79 plates. London, 1817.
Antiquities of Ionia, by Chandler, Revett, and Pars. Imperial folio, plates, 2vols.,

London, 1817-23.

Chambers's Civil Architecture. Gwilt's Edition. tecture. Imp. 8vo.

London, 1825.

Introductory Essay on Grecian Archi

Chandler's, R., Travels in Asia Minor and Greece. 2 vols. 4to.

London, 1817.

Choiseul, Gouffier. Voyage Pittoresque de la Grèce. 2 vols. folio. Paris, 1782—1809. Cockerell's, C. R., Temple of Jupiter Olympius at Agrigentum. London, 1825. Delagardette. Les Ruines de Pæstum, ou Posidonia. Royal folio. Paris, 1799. Donaldson. Collection of the most approved Examples of Doorways from ancient Buildings in Greece and Italy. 2 vols. 4to. London, 1833.

Gartner, F. Monuments of Greece and Sicily. Folio. Munich, 1819.

Harris and Angell. Temple of Selinus. Large 4to. plates. London, 1826.

Hittorff. Architecture Antique de la Sicile. Paris, 1825-30-37.

Le Roy. Les Ruines, les plus beaux Monuments de la Grèce, considerées du Coté de l'Histoire, et du Coté de l'Architecture. Imp. folio, plates by Le Bas. Paris, 1758. Not a correct work.

Major, T. Ruines de Pæstum. 24 plates, large folio.

1768.

Quincy's, M. Quatremère de, Jupiter Olympien. Large folio, plates, some coloured. Paris, 1815.

Restitution des Deux Frontons du Temple de Minerve à Athènes. 4to. 3 plates, Paris, 1825. Stanhope, J. S. Olympia; or Topography of the ancient State of the Plain of Olympia, and of the Ruins of the City of Elis. Imp. folio. London, 1824.

Stuart's, James, Antiquities of Athens. 4 vols. large folio. 1762, &c. Stuart, James, F. R. S. F. S. A., and Nicholas Revett's Antities of Athens, a second edition, with a very considerable augmentation of notes of subits further elucidated and brought to light by Travellers since the times of Stuart and Revett, edited by W. Kinnaird, architect, with an additional and entirely new volume (as supplement) of Architecture and Antiquities in Greece, Sicily, &c., the result of recent Travels and Investigations, by C. R. Cockerell, W. Kinnaird, T. L. Donaldson, W. Jenkins, and others, architects. 4 vols. royal folio, about 200 plates. 1825-1830.

The plates in the three first volumes of this edition are from the coppers of the French edition.

Visconti, Chevalier. Ouvrages de Sculpture du Parthenon. 8vo. Paris, 1818. Wilkins, W. Antiquities of Magna Græcia. Imp. folio. Cambridge, 1807. An illdrawn work.

Topography and Buildings of Athens. Royal 8vo., plates. 1816.

II. ROMAN ARCHITECTURE.

Adams, Robert. Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia. Folio, 61 plates. London, 1764.

Allason, T. Picturesque Views of the Antiquities of Pola. Folio, 14 plates. London,

1817.

Bartoli, P. S.

Gli Antichi Sepolchri ovvero Mausolei Romani ed Etruschi. Folio,
Roma, 1727.

110 plates.
Colonna Trajana, a P. Bellori.

128 plates.

Bellonii, J. P. Veteres Arcus Augustorum Triumphis insignes ex Reliquiis quæ Romæ adhuc supersunt per J. J. de Rubeis. Folio. Roma, 1690.

Bianchi di Lugano, P. Osservazioni sull' Arena, e sul Podio dell' Anfiteatro Flavio. Folio. Roma, 1812.

Bianconi, G. L. Descrizione dei Circhi. Folio, 20 plates. Cameron's Baths of the Romans explained and illustrated. 1772.

Roma, 1789.

Folio, 75 plates. London,

Caristie. Plan et Coupe d'une partie du Forum Romain et des Monumens sur la Voie Sacrée. Atlas folio. Paris, 1821.

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Gell, Sir W., and J. P. Gandy. Pompeiana; the Topography, Edifices, and Ornaments of Pompeii. 2 vols. imperial 8vo. London, 1824.

Grangent, M. M., C. Durand, et S. Durant. Description des Monumens Antiques du Midi de la France. Folio, plates. Paris, 1819.

Haudebourt, L. P. Le Laurentin; Maison de Campagne de Pliné le Jeune. Large 8vo. plates. Paris, 1858.

Labacco, Ant. Appartenente all' Architettura nel qual si figurano alcune notabili Antiquità di Roma. Plates, folio. Roma.

Maffei, Scipio. History of Ancient Amphitheatres. Translated by Gordon. 8vo. London, 1730.

Mazois. Ruines de Pompeii. Paris, 1830.

Nibby, Ant. adjacenti.

Del Foro Romano, della Via Sacra, dell' Anfiteatro Flavio, e di Luoghi 8vo. Roma, 1819. Palladio, A. I Quattro Libri d'Architettura; whereof the last book is of ancient Roman Architecture. Several editions published at Venice. Figures on wood blocks. Il Tempio di Minerva in Assisi confrontato colle Tavole di Giov. Antolini. Folio. Milano, 1803.

· Les Termes des Romains dessinées.

Par O. B. Scamozzi, d'apres l' Exemplaire

du Lord Burlington. Folio. Vicenza, 1785. Piranesi, Giov. Bapt. The works of (the son) subsequent to the death of Jolin Baptist Piranesi. 29 vols. imperial folio, and double elephant folio. An abbreviated

list of them is subjoined:

Vol. 1. Ruins of ancient Edifices of Rome, with the Explanation, Aqueducts, Baths, the Forum, &c. &c.

Vol. 2. Funeral Monuments, Cippi, Vases, &c. &c.

Vol. 3. Ancient Bas-reliefs, Stuccoes, Mosaics, Inscriptions, &c. &c.

Vol. 4. The Bridges of Rome, the Ruins of the Theatres, Porticoes, &c. &c.
Vol. 5. The Monuments of the Scipios.

Vol. 6. Ancient Temples, the Temples of Vesta, of Honour and Virtue, Statue of the Goddess Vesta, Altar to Bacchus, the Pantheon of Rome, &c. &c.

Vol. 7. The Magnificence of the ancient Roman Architecture, Pedestals of the Arches of Titus and Septimius Severus, Portico of the Capitol, &c. &c.

Vol. 8. Grecian, Bruscan, and Roman Architecture, Arches of Triumph, Bridges, Temples, Amphitheatres, Prisons, &c.

Vol. 9. Fêtes and Triumphs, from the Foundation of Rome to Tiberius, Temple of Castor and Hercules, and other antique Monuments of the ancient City of Cora, &c. &c.

Vol. 10. The ancient Campo Marzio, Ruins of the Theatre of Pompeii, Portico of
Octavius, Reservoir of the Virgin Water, Mausoleum of Augustus, Palace of
Aurelius, the Pantheon, the Cave of the Archives of the Romans, Baths and
Tombs of Adrian, Apotheosis of Antonine the Pious, Arch of Marcus Aurelius,
Baths of Sallust, Plan of the Roman Senate House, &c. &c.
Vol. 11. Antiquities of Albano, Temple of Jupiter, sepulchral Attributes to the
Horatii, Amphitheatre of Domitian, ancient Baths, &c.

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