Housing the new Romans : architectural reception and classical style in the modern world / edited by Katharine T. von Stackelberg and Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stackelberg, Katharine T. von, editor.

Macaulay-Lewis, Elizabeth, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neoclassicism (Architecture).

Architecture, Domestic.

Architecture, Classical--Influence.

Architecture, Classical.

Architecture, Ancient--Influence.

Architecture, Ancient.

Physical Description:

xx, 327 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Architectural reception and classical style in the modern world

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford Univ Press, [2017]

Contents:

Chapter 1 (Re)presenting Romanitas at Sir John Soane's House and Villa / Ann Kuttner Kuttner, Ann 24

Chapter 2 The Hotel de Beauharnais in Paris: Egypt, Greece, Rome, and the Dynamics of Stylistic Transformation / Caroline van Eck Eck, Caroline van, Miguel John Versluys Versluys, Miguel John 54

Chapter 3 The History of Human Habitation: Ancient Domestic Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Europe / Shelley Hales Hales, Shelley 92

Chapter 4 Domestic Interiors, National Concerns: The Pompeian Style in the United States / Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols Nichols, Marden Fitzpatrick 126

Chapter 5 The Impossible Exedra: Engineering Contemplation and Conviviality in Turn-of-the-Century America / Melody Barnett Deusner Deusner, Melody Barnett 153

Chapter 6 Entombing Antiquity: A New Consideration of Classical and Egyptian Appropriation in the Funerary Architecture of Woodlawn Cemetery, New York City / Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis Macaulay-Lewis, Elizabeth 190

Chapter 7 Reconsidering Hyperreality: "Roman" Houses and Their Gardens / Katharine T. von Stackelberg Stackelberg, Katharine T. von 232.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-307) and index.

ISBN:

9780190272333

0190272333

OCLC:

986236972