Anne Stierlin Livres

This volume deals with Roman architecture in Italy, France, Spain, the Rhineland, and North Africa. It covers all the major Roman amphitheatres and arenas, temples and baths, aqueducts and fortresses, as well as Pompeii and Hardpan's Villa at Tivoli.

This volume retraces the development and magnificent flowering of Mayan architecture in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Belize over the period 300 B.C.-A.D. 1500. Tikal, the earliest Mayan religious centre, Palenque famous for its ceremonial centre, and Copan with its hieroglyphic staircase featuring 2500 glyphs are among the cities featured, along with Chichen Itza and its ball court, and Bonampak and its frescoes. These astounding creations testify to the knowledge and refinement of the most advanced of the pre-Columbian civilizations. Book jacket.

This illustrated journey through the world of classical Greece focuses upon the significance of Greek antiquity; the wealth of its cultural treasures; and the various periods and the spread of Greek culture as far as southern Italy and Persia.

Dieser Band ist eine beeindruckende Übersicht über mehr als 600 Jahre islamischer Architektur, vom siebten bis zum dreizehnten Jahrhundert, in einer Region, die sich vom Nahen und Mittleren Osten bis nach Sizilien, zum Maghreb und nach Andalusien erstreckt. Er präsentiert Meisterwerke der islamischen Architektur, vom unvergleichlichen Felsendom in Jerusalem bis zu den geheimnisvollen Umayyadenpalästen in den Wüsten Syriens und Palästinas, von den prächtigen Residenzen der Kalifen in Samarra und Saragossa bis zu den Großen Moscheen von Damaskus, Kairouan und Córdoba.

From the Selcuk period and the early Ottoman style of Iznik and Bursa to the classicism of Edirne and the masterpieces of Sinan, this volume sets out the achievements of Islamic architecture from the 13th to the 19th century. Henri Stierlin's vivid account includes portraits of such key figures as the celebrated court architect, Sinan, Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent and Grand Vizier Mehmet Pasa Sokollu.