Construction as Depicted in Western Art

With a quarter century of experience working on historic buildings, Michael Tutton has studied at graduate and post-graduate level and published on the subjects of architectural history, building history, and building conservation.

List of Figures
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE. The Carpenter
Access: Scaffolding, Ladders and Ramps, the Raw Materials
The Evidence for Early Scaffolding, ladders and ramps to the end of the Sixteenth Century Formwork
Scaffolding in the Seventeenth Century and Beyond
Timber framing and roof structure
Accidents and misadventures
Cranes, Hoists and other Lifting Equipment
Roman cranes
Medieval and Renaissance cranes
When things don't quite work
The mobile crane
CHAPTER TWO. Stone masons and bricklayers: materials, tools and equipment
Ancient Egypt
The Roman period
Medieval and Renaissance
Materials production and extraction
CHAPTER THREE. The Smith
The blacksmith on the building site
Smiths in mythology
Two fourteenth century images
Adam Dürr, a Nuremberg blacksmith
The striker
Conclusion
Glossary of technical terms
Bibliography
Index