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Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983) was one of the twentieth century's most learned and stimulating writers on art and architecture. He established his reputation with Pioneers of Modern Design, though he is probably best known for his celebrated series of guides, The Buildings of England, acknowledged as one of the great achievements of twentieth-century scholarship. He was also founding editor of The Pelican History of Art, the most comprehensive and scholarly history of art ever published in English.

Twilight and Dawn, from the fourth to the tenth century --
The Romanesque style c. 1000 - c. 1200 --
The Early and Classic Gothic style c. 1150 - c. 1250 --
The Late Gothic style c. 1250 - - c. 1500--
Renaissance and Mannerism c. 1420 - c. 1600 --
The Baroque in the Roman Catholic Countries c. 1600 - c. 1760 --
Britain and France from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century --
The Romantic Movement, historicism, and the Beginning of the Modern Movement 1760 - 1914 --
From the End of the First World War to the Present Day --
American Postscript --

One of the most widely read books on European architecture, Nikolaus Pevsner's landmark work was first published in 1942. Through several revisions and updates during Pevsner's lifetime, it continued to be a seminal essay on the subject, and even after his death, it remains as stimulating as it was back in the mid-twentieth century.