Tracing Architecture The Aesthetics of Antiquarianism Art History Special Issues 1st Edition by Dana Arnold, Stephen Bending ISBN 1405105356 9781405105354

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ISBN 10: 1405105356 

ISBN 13: 9781405105354

Author: Dana Arnold, Stephen Bending 

Tracing Architecture looks at the impact that knowledge of ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman and British architecture had on aesthetic attitudes and architectural design. It explores the changing relationship between text and image in an era before the introduction of mass mechanical reproduction.

• Discusses the discovery of the ancient world through the medium of print in the long eighteenth century.
• Looks at the impact that knowledge of ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman and British architecture had on aesthetic attitudes and architectural design.
• Considers the interrelationship between architecture, antiquity and aesthetics in a pan-European context.
• Explores the changing relationship between text and image in an era before the introduction of mass mechanical reproduction.

Table of contents:

1. Tracing Architecture: The Aesthetics of Antiquarianism

2. Monuments and Texts: Antiquarianism and the Beauty of Antiquity

3. Facts or Fragments? Visual Histories in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

4. The Sources and Fortunes of Piranesi’s Archaeological Illustrations

5. Antiquity and Improvement in the National Landscape: The Buck’s Views of Antiquities 1726–42

6. Data, Documentation and Display in Eighteenth-Century Investigations of Exeter Cathedral

7. Every Man is Naturally an Antiquarian: Francis Grose and Polite Antiquities

8. Voyage: Dominique-Vivant Denon and the Transference of Images of Egypt

9. Specimens of Antient Sculpture: Imperialism and the Decline of Art

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