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The decorum of doors and windows, from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2007

Peter Kohane
Affiliation:
Faculty of Built Environment, University of New South Wales, 2052 [email protected]
Michael Hill
Affiliation:
Department of Art History and Theory, National Art School Forbes St East Sydney, 2010, [email protected]

Abstract

Doors and windows were once among the primary means of articulating a facade. Tailored to the orders, they expressed the symmetry that guided the overall design of a building.

Type
history
Copyright
2006 Cambridge University Press

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