Tracing Architecture The Aesthetics of

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.

Dana Arnold is Professor of Architectural History, University of Southampton and Director of the Centre for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism.

Her recent publications include Re-presenting the Metropolis: Architecture, urban experience and social life in London (2000); The Georgian Country House: Architecture, landscape and society (1998) and the edited volumes The Metropolis and its Image Constructing identities for London c 1750-1950 (1999) and The Georgian Villa (1996, 1998 paperback). Professor Arnold also has research interests in the field of Art History and she is General Editor of three series New Interventions in Art History, Companions to Art History and Anthologies in Art History published by Blackwell and Editor of the journal Art History. She appears regularly on Radio 3 and 4 and has published widely in the architectural and academic press.

Stephen Bending is a Lecturer in the English Department at Southampton University.

Introduction Tracing Architecture: the aesthetics of antiquarianism

1

(10)

Dana Arnold

Stephen Bending

Monuments and Texts: Antiquarianism and the beauty of antiquity

11

(19)

Maria Grazia Lolla

Facts or Fragments? Visual histories in the age of mechanical reproduction

30

(19)

Dana Arnold

The Sources and Fortunes of Piranesi's Archaeological Illustrations

49

(19)

Susan M. Dixon

Antiquity and Improvement in the National Landscape: the Buck's views of antiquities 1726--42

68

(12)

Andrew Kennedy

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

80

(20)

Sam Smiles

Every Man is Naturally an Antiquarian: Francis Grose and polite antiquities

100

(11)

Stephen Bending

Voyage: Dominique-Vivant Denon and the transference of images of Egypt

111

(19)

Abigail Harrison Moore

Specimens of Antient Sculpture: Imperialism and the decline of art

130

(16)

Andrew Ballantyne

Index

146

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Tracing Architecture The Aesthetics of Antiquarianism

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