TY - BOOK AU - Summerson,John TI - The architecture of the eighteenth century. SN - 0500202028 AV - NA956 S86 2003 U1 - 724.19 22 PY - 2003/// CY - New York, N.Y. : PB - Thames and Hudson KW - Architecture KW - Europe KW - 18th century KW - Local KW - Neoclassicism Architecture KW - Architecture, Baroque KW - History N1 - Includes index; Bibliography: p. 170-171; 1 The Ascendancy and Fall of the Baroque -- THE LEGACY OF ROMAN BAROQUE • Rococo AND RATIONALISM -- 2 The Architecture of Absolutism -- THREE ROYAL PALACES: VIENNA, STOCKHOLM AND BERLIN • THE COURTS OF GERMANY • VARIETIES OF ABSOLUTISM -- 3 The Demonstrations of Faith -- CATHOLICISM IN CENTRAL EUROPE • A TWIST TO CLASSICISM: ITALY AND FRANCE • SPAIN, PORTUGAL AND LATIN AMERICA • THE PROTESTANT WORLD -- 4 A Plurality of Styles -- `NOBLE SIMPLICITY' • BEYOND NEO-CLASSICISM • ART, NATURE AND THE GOTHIC • THE CULT OF THE COTTAGE - ARCHAEOLOGY, ABSTRACTION AND THE EXOTIC -- 5 Architecture and Society: the Enlightenment -- THEATRES, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE • LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS • HOSPITALS AND PRISONS • THE ARCHITECTURE OF COMMERCE -- 6 The Urban Image -- PLANNING AND POLITICS • FORMALITY DISSOLVES • GROWING INTO THE FUTURE -- Bibliography -- Photographic Acknowledgments -- Index -- ER -