Architecture of the 19th Century

Published by Taschen Evergreen, hardcover, illustrated, index, 320 pages, 25.5 cms x 30.8 cms x 3.5 cms, condition; as new.

With examples of Neo-Gothic, Neo-Classic, Romantic and eclectic styles, this book features the types, problems and history of over 500 European buildings.

The author, Claude Mignot,  practiced an open, precise and tolerant history of art: he was not locked into any quarrel or ideology, none of its distortions that support theories as brilliant as they are false, as media-friendly as they are ephemeral. Prudent, attentive to documents as to buildings, enemy of overinterpretations and gratuitous attributions, he held firm to the mast of the scientific spirit, without yielding to the sirens of the fashions of the moment. When the foam of contemporary agitations and the froth of postures have passed, as they always pass, the scientific work will remain like the rock after the ebb of the sea, like a reassuring certainty, of a power obtained not by force, but by a gentle rigor.