Tributes to Pierre du Prey : architecture and the classical tradition, from Pliny to Posterity / edited by Matthew M. Reeve.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reeve, Matthew M.

Du Prey, Pierre de la Ruffinière.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Classical.

Architecture, Classical--Influence.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

288 pages : illustrations, plans, portraits ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Turnhout : Harvey Miller / Brepols, [2014]

Contents:

Pierre du Prey : an introduction / Matthew M Reeve, David McTavish and Peter Coffman

The origins of the orders: unity in multiplicity / Mark Wilson Jones

Some other literary villas of Roman antiquity besides Pliny's, / Guy P.R. Métraux

The Tempietto del Clitunno and San Salvatore near Spoleto: ancient Roman imperial columnar display in Medieval contexts / Judson J. Emerick

Romanesque historiography and the Classical tradition / Eric Fernie

Uses of the past: Charles V's Roman triumph and its legacy / John Beldon Scott

Classicism in a Rococo world: steadfastness and compromise in late Colonial South America / Gauvin Alexander Bailey

Girolamo Porro: engraver and publisher in Venice / Sally Hickson

Acanthus leaves and ostrich feathers: Claude Perrault, traditio, and innovation in architectural language / Una roman d'Elia

Classical themes and crative variations from the sixteenth century: two unpublished drawings of palace facades related to Giulio Romano / David McTavish

Two drawings by Giovanni Battista Montano in the Canadian Centre for Architecture / Janina Knight

Ruins and restitution: eighteenth-century architects and antiquity in the Bay of Naples / John Pinto

'A Gothic Vatican of Greece and Rome': Horace Walpole, Strawberry Hill, and the narratives of Gothic / Matthew M. Reeve

The Gibbsian tradition in Nova Scotia / peter Coffman

Thomas Baillairgé and Victor Bourgeau: architects, architectural practice, and the nineteenth-century French-Canadian Church in Quebec / Luc Noppen

The Stadio di Marmi in Rome: inventing a Classical stage for the colossal heroes of fascist Italy / Sebastian Schütze

Mies Klassizismus : some notes / Phyllis Lambert

Postlude: in prase of mentors / Pierre du Prey.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781909400122

1909400122

OCLC:

868825616