Chapter I: Front Matter

[This text uses utf-8 (unicode) file encoding. If the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, make sure your text reader’s “character set” or “file encoding” is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change the default font. As a last resort, use the latin-1 version of the file instead.

Errors and inconsistencies, including details about some place names, are listed at the end of the e-text. Spelling variations are as in the original.]

* * * * *
* * * *

COLLEGE HISTORIES OF ART

Edited By
JOHN C. VAN DYKE, L.H.D.

* * *

HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE
A. D. F. Hamlin

* * * * *
* * * *

COLLEGE HISTORIES OF ART

Edited By

JOHN C. VAN DYKE, L.H.D.

Professor of the History of Art
in Rutgers College

* * *

HISTORY OF PAINTING

By JOHN C. VAN DYKE, the Editor of the Series. With Frontispiece and 110 Illustrations, Bibliographies, and Index. Crown 8vo, $1.50.

HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE

By ALFRED D. F. HAMLIN, A.M. Adjunct Professor of Architecture, Columbia College, New York. With Frontispiece and 229 Illustrations and Diagrams, Bibliographies, Glossary, Index of Architects, and a General Index. Crown 8vo, $2.00.

HISTORY OF SCULPTURE

By ALLAN MARQUAND, Ph.D., L.H.D. and ARTHUR L. FROTHINGHAM, Jr., Ph.D., Professors of Archæology and the History of Art in Princeton University. With Frontispiece and 112 Illustrations. Crown 8vo, $1.50.

* * * * *
* * * *

A TEXT-BOOK

of the

HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE

by

A. D. F. HAMLIN, A.M.

Professor of the History of Architecture
in the School of Architecture,
Columbia University

SEVENTH EDITION
Revised

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
91 and 93 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK
London, Bombay, and Calcutta
1909

Copyright, 1895, by
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.

_All rights reserved._

First Edition, March, 1896
Printed and Revised, December, 1896.
December, 1898 (Revised)
October, 1900 (Revised)
October, 1902 (Revised)
September, 1904, June, 1906 (Revised).
November, 1907 (Revised)
January, 1909

Press of J. J. Little & Ives Co.
425-435 East 24th Street, New York