About The Study-book of Mediæval Architecture and Art
The Study-book of Mediæval Architecture and Art: Being a Series of Working Drawings of the Principal Monuments of the Middle Ages : Whereof the Plans, Sections, and Details are Drawn to Uniform Scales
Volume 1-2
This is a reproduction of an original work published in 1868 by Henry Sotheran and co.
Reproduced from the original four 1868 volumes, this Medieval masterwork contains over 400 plates, representing more than 80 churches, covering a wider range than any publication of it’s day.
Written at the height of the English Gothic Revival period, King aims to represent the ancient edifices of the Middle Ages in an abounding collection of accurate and attractive drawings that any student around the world can study the ancient grandeur of the Medieval period.
The treasure-trove of Gothic and Romanesque architecture is a rare and refreshing find among the saturated supply of Greco-Roman treatises from King’s contemporaries in his age. This underrated classic reintroduced a Christian style of building which had been lost for centuries but saw a growing popularity as it served to balance the secular monotony of King’s day.
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Author Bio:
The author of the present work, Thomas Harper King, was a student of Augustus Pugin, and his life was dedicated to spreading Pugin’s ideas and advocacy of Mediæval art and architecture throughout mainland Europe. Born in St. Marylebone, England, King spent much of his childhood in London. He studied at Exeter College of the University of Oxford, and went on to study under Pugin himself in Ascot. In 1844, he converted to Catholicism.
He went to Bruges in 1848 and coordinated his research travels from there in order to prepare his model books and plates on medieval architecture and Christian artifacts. In 1851, he married Anna Morgan in Bruges, where they had four children. In 1852, King translated Pugin’s The True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture to French in an effort to spread the Gothic Revival to France and Belgium. In 1854 King had influence on the construction of the Church of Saint Magdalene, for which he imposed the English principles of the neo-Gothic. When Anna Morgan died unexpectedly in 1858 in Bruges, King eventually left Bruges in 1860 and continued to live in England. A widower, King no longer involved himself in activities related to art history and architecture. He died in 1892 in Devon, England.