Excerpt from Cyclop?dia of Works of Architecture: In Italy, Greece, and the Levant
The purpose of this volume is to give conspectus of the architecture of Italy, Greece, and the Levant, arranged for easy reference, which shall be sufficient for the general reader or the traveller, and at the same time furnish the student of architecture a fairly adequate account of the important monuments and give him finger-posts for guidance in further investigation. It was at first proposed to record the historical and literary associations of the buildings; but it was found that this must swell the book beyond reason, or else exclude the fulness of description which the architectural student had a right to expect; the historical accounts are therefore limited to a statement of the most important facts.
The selection of examples has been a difficult work, and often a doubtful one. Italy is pre-eminently the land of architecture; her medi?val churches and palaces count by thousands, and her later buildings of importance are much more numerous; Greece and Asia Minor and Syria are strewn with the remains of classic architecture. Near the line of exclusion the choice often lay between buildings of practically equal importance, among which sometimes the chief determining influence was the necessity of deciding. Architectural interest first and historical second were the obvious tests, and so, while some large and conspicuous buildings are omitted, many less conspicuous are included on account of some quality of form or importance in the line of evolution, or occasionally for some historical association that makes them objects of common inquiry.
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