Project Overview

Eurogloss is a digital glossary of the architectural terminology used across Europe between 1600 and 1800. It brings together the vocabulary of building and design from the Baroque to the Neoclassical period, tracing how terms were coined, borrowed, and transformed as ideas and craftsmen moved between regions and languages. By gathering this terminology in one searchable resource, the project supports historians, conservators, and students working with primary sources from the early modern period.

Scope

Each entry pairs a definition with its historical context, period sources, and equivalents in other European languages. The collection can be explored in three ways: an alphabetical glossary for direct look-up, an interactive map that situates terms in the places where they were used, and a timeline that follows their development across the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Entries are written and reviewed by the project's researchers, and the glossary continues to grow as new terms are documented.

Funding & Leadership

Researchers

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