Chapter I: Front Matter

Transcriber’s Note

When italics were used in the original book, the corresponding text has been surrounded by _underscores_. Superscripts have been indicated by preceding the superscripted letters with ^. When more than one character in a row is superscripted, the letters have been surrounded with {}. Ditto marks have been replaced by the text they represent. Some corrections have been made to the printed text. These are listed in a second transcriber’s note at the end of the text.

A

HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE

IN ALL COUNTRIES,

FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY.

BY JAMES FERGUSSON, D.C.L., F.R.S., M.R.A.S.,
FELLOW ROYAL INST. BRIT. ARCHITECTS,
_&c. &c. &c._

IN FIVE VOLUMES.—VOL. II.

_THIRD EDITION._

EDITED BY R. PHENÉ SPIERS, F.S.A.,
FELLOW ROYAL INST. BRITISH ARCHITECTS.

LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET,
1893.
_The right of Translation is reserved._

FERGUSSON’S ARCHITECTURE.

_Third Edition, with 330 Illustrations, 2 vols., medium 8vo_, 31s. 6d.

A HISTORY OF THE MODERN STYLES
OF ARCHITECTURE.

By the late JAMES FERGUSSON, F.R.S.

A New Edition, Revised and Enlarged. With a Special Account of
the Architecture of America.

By ROBERT KERR, Professor of Architecture at King’s College, London.

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BY THE SAME.

_New and Cheaper Edition, with 400 Illustrations, medium 8vo_, 31s. 6d.

A HISTORY OF INDIAN AND EASTERN
ARCHITECTURE.

LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,
STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

PART II.—CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE.
(_Continued._)

BOOK II.—ITALY.

(_Continued._)

CHAP. PAGE

VII. Circular churches—Towers at Prato and Florence—Porches— 1
Civic buildings—Town-halls—Venice—Doge’s Palace—Cà d’Oro—
Conclusion

VIII. SICILY—Population of Sicily—The Saracens—Buildings at 22
Palermo—Cathedral of Monreale—Cefalu—The Pointed Arch

IX. GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE IN PALESTINE—Church of Holy 32
Sepulchre, Jerusalem—Churches at Abû Gosh and Lydda—Mosque
at Hebron