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![[picture: Front Cover, Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Smith-GothicArchitecture/tn/000-Front-Cover-q75-372x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance]")
Pictures from Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance by T. Roger Smith, F.R.I.B.A. Professor of Architecture at University College, London (Sampson Low, Marston and Company, Limited, 1896)
Roger Thomas Smith (1830 – 1903) died more than 70 years ago, and the book is out of copyright.
I bought my copy of the book at Renaissance Books UK in Broadford, on the Isle of Skye.
Title: Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance
Published by: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, Limited
City: London
Date: 1896
Total items: 9
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Title Page Image (detail)]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Smith-GothicArchitecture/wm/big/000-Title-Page-detail-q75-205x200.jpg "[picture: Title Page Image (detail)]")
![[picture: Gothic Chapter Head: Mediaeval Birds]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Smith-GothicArchitecture/wm/big/xv-chapter-head-gothic-birds-q75-752x200.jpg "[picture: Gothic Chapter Head: Mediaeval Birds]")
Gothic Chapter Head: Mediaeval Birds
A decorative element (a typographic ornament, or part of a border) at the head of the first chapter (the glossary) features mediaeval (medieval) bird designs. [more...] [$]
![[picture: 7.---House of Jacques Cœur at Bourges (Begun 1443)]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Smith-GothicArchitecture/wm/big/015-07-House-of-Jacques-Coeur-at-Bourges-q75-192x200.jpg "[picture: 7.---House of Jacques Cœur at Bourges (Begun 1443)]")
7.—House of Jacques Cœur at Bourges (Begun 1443)
“‘Second only in importance to the churches and religious buildings come the military and domestic buildings of the Gothic period (Fig. 7).” [more...] [$]
![[picture: 84.---The Alcazar at Toledo (Begun 1548)]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Smith-GothicArchitecture/wm/big/231-the-alcazar-at-toledo-q75-138x200.jpg "[picture: 84.---The Alcazar at Toledo (Begun 1548)]")
84.—The Alcazar at Toledo (Begun 1548)
Several people stand or sit around, disconnected individuals, on the flagstone floor of the Alcázar, made to seem insiginficant by the height of the pillars and arches, perhaps 60 feet or more (10 metres). In this picture the courtyard or interior is open to the sky, as it is today, but with ruined battlements at the top, and in a state of disrepair. [...] [more...] [$]
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