MDS 726
Wording: Arts & recreation Architecture Buildings for religious and related purposes
Dewmoji: π¨π¬βͺ
0 Computer science, information & general works 252,013 βΉοΈ | 1 Philosophy and Psychology 270,129 🧠 | 2 Religion 681,242 π | 3 Social sciences 1,328,382 π« | 4 Language 209,883 π¬ | 5 Natural sciences & mathematics 431,918 π¬ | 6 Technology 940,635 π‘ | 7 Arts & recreation 1,031,850 π¨ | 8 Literature & rhetoric 1,436,736 π | 9 History & geography 837,760 πΊοΈ |
70 Arts 107,972 π¨ | 71 Area planning & landscape architecture 12,226 π‘ | 72 Architecture 60,522 π¬ | 73 Sculpture, ceramics & metalwork 34,986 πΏ | 74 Drawing & decorative arts 237,837 ✏️ | 75 Painting 63,856 π¨ | 76 Printmaking & prints 14,296 π | 77 Photography 49,340 π· | 78 Music 158,439 πΌ | 79 Recreation, sports, and performing arts 292,375 β½ |
720 Architecture 29,898 π | 721 Architectural materials and structural elements 1,679 π | 722 Architecture from earliest times to ca. 300 654 β© | 723 Architecture from ca. 300 to 1399 528 π° | 724 Architecture from 1400 2,544 π’ | 725 Public structures 5,010 π€ | 726 Buildings for religious and related purposes 6,332 βͺ | 727 Buildings for educational and research purposes 1,312 π« | 728 Residential and related buildings 10,398 π | 729 Design and decoration of structures and accessories 2,167 π |
726.0 111 | 726.1 Temples and shrines 462 π | 726.2 Mosques and minarets 122 | 726.3 Synagogues and Jewish temples 114 | 726.4 Accessory houses of worship; chapels, Sunday schools buildings, parish halls 68 | 726.5 Buildings associated with Christianity; chapels, church buildings 2,690 | 726.6 Cathedrals 1,222 | 726.7 Medieval Monasteries 528 | 726.8 Funerary architecture 183 | 726.9 Other religious buildings; episcopal palaces, missions, parsonages 61 |
Selected Works under MDS 726 (6,332)
- Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction by David Macaulay
- Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King
- Mosque by David Macaulay
- Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter's by R. A. Scotti
- England's Thousand Best Churches by Simon Jenkins
- The Gothic Cathedral by Otto Georg von Simson
- How to Read Churches: A Crash Course in Ecclesiastical Architecture by Denis R. McNamara
- Chartres Cathedral by Malcolm Miller
- Universe of Stone: A Biography of Chartres Cathedral by Philip Ball
- Notre-Dame: A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals by Ken Follett
- The Cathedrals of England by Alec Clifton-Taylor
- The Geometry of Love: Space, Time, Mystery, and Meaning in an Ordinary Church by Margaret Visser
- The Cathedral Builders by Jean Gimpel
- Cistercian Abbeys by Jean-Francois Leroux-Dhuys
- The Genius in the Design: Bernini, Borromini, and the Rivalry That Transformed Rome by Jake Morrissey
- The Gothic Enterprise: A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral by Robert A. Scott
- The Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses by Paul Koudounaris
- The Parthenon Enigma by Joan Breton Connelly
- Notre-Dame of Paris by Allan Temko
- Where Is the Parthenon? by Roberta Edwards
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