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One of the most lavish and earliest comparative studies of architecture, Entwurff einer historischen Architectur (A plan of civil and historical architecture), by Johann Bernard Fischer van Erlach (1665-1723), features more than ninety illustrated accounts of buildings and cities from around the world. An Austrian architect and sculptor best known for baroque-style buildings in Salzburg and Vienna, Fischer von Erlach spent more than ten years preparing this work. In it, he promoted his own commissions and recorded sites he visited in Italy and Greece. He also was inspired by other illustrated books, in particular Nieuhof’s seventeenth-century travel guide, which he used as a source for most of his images of Chinese cities and buildings. Entwurff is significant for its inclusion of non-European buildings – notably mosques and Chinese bridges – which are given equal status with more traditional neoclassical edifices.
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One of the most lavish and earliest comparative studies of architecture, Entwurff einer historischen Architectur (A plan of civil and historical architecture), by Johann Bernard Fischer van Erlach (1665-1723), features more than ninety illustrated accounts of buildings and cities from around the world. An Austrian architect and sculptor best known for baroque-style buildings in Salzburg and Vienna, Fischer von Erlach spent more than ten years preparing this work. In it, he promoted his own commissions and recorded sites he visited in Italy and Greece. He also was inspired by other illustrated books, in particular Nieuhof’s seventeenth-century travel guide, which he used as a source for most of his images of Chinese cities and buildings. Entwurff is significant for its inclusion of non-European buildings – notably mosques and Chinese bridges – which are given equal status with more traditional neoclassical edifices.