Author: SCHAYES A.G.B. :
Title: Essai sur L'Architecture Ogivale en Belgique.
Description: .: Bruxelles, Académie royale de Belgique, (Hayez), 1840, in-4°, 194 pp + 3 engraved plates. Modern red half cloth with marbled boards, gilt title on spine, plates a bit foxed, but a fine copy. The prize-winning essay published by the Belgian Royal Academy in its ''Mémoires'' Volume XIV. (Académie royale de Belgique). One of the first serious efforts to study the gothic architecture in Belgium, evidently a proof of the rising interest in ancestral architecture. The author, not free from chauvinistic tendencies, situated the cradle in Belgium (thus refuting the "romantic" idea of Chateaubriand, who put it in France). This book is much rarer than the well-known "Histoire de L'Architecture Belge" by the same author, which appeared in 1855. Book in French. Livre en français.. .

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