Main entry:

Jong, Sigrid de, author.

Title & Author:

Rediscovering Architecture : Paestum in Eighteenth-Century Architectural Experience and Theory / Sigrid de Jong.

Publication:

New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, [2014]
©2014

Description:

vii, 353 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-343) and index.
Introduction -- Aesthetic experiences. Paradoxical encounters: Paestum and the sublime ; Scenic associations: Paestum and the picturesque -- Experiences of movement. Entering ruins: a physical experience ; Staging ruins: theatrical sequences -- Contextualising experiences. In pursuit of the primitive: history in the making ; The eye of the architect: Paestum exported -- Conclusion.
Text in English.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"The 18th-century rediscovery of the three archaic Greek-Doric temples in Paestum in southern Italy turned existing ideas on classical architecture upside down. The porous limestone temples with rough, heavy columns were entirely unlike the classical architecture travelers to the site were familiar with. Paestum, exceptional in the completeness of its ruins, came to fascinate architects, artists, writers, and tourists alike, who documented the site in drawings and texts. In Rediscovering Architecture, Sigrid de Jong analyzes extensive original source material, including letters, diaries, drawings, paintings, engravings, and published texts, which are attractively reproduced here. The book offers new insights on the explorations of the site, the diverse reactions to it, and their dramatic and enduring effect on architectural thought, as they influenced intellectual debates in England, France, and Italy during the long 18th century. This unique study of the experience of architecture reconstructs Paestum's key role in the discourse on classical architecture and its historiography, primitivism, the sublime and the picturesque, and the growing importance of science and history in architectural thought."--Front inside flap of dust jacket.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9780300195750 (hbk.)
0300195753 (hbk.)

Subject:

Temples Italy Paestum (Extinct city)
Architecture, Greek Influence.
Architecture Philosophy History 18th century.
Neoclassicism (Architecture)
Europeans Travel Italy Paestum (Extinct city) History 18th century.
Architecture grecque Influence.
Architecture Philosophie Histoire 18e siècle.
Néoclassicisme (Architecture)
Européens Voyages Italie Paestum (Ville ancienne) Histoire 18e siècle.
Architecture Philosophy.
Buildings.
Europeans Travel.
Temples.
Tempelbau
Rezeption
Architektur
Ästhetik
Temples Italy Paestum.
Europeans Travel Italy Paestum History 18th century.
Paestum (Extinct city) In art.
Paestum (Extinct city) Buildings, structures, etc.
Paestum (Ville ancienne) Dans l'art.
Paestum (Ville ancienne) Constructions.
Italy Paestum (Extinct city)
Paestum
Paestum (Italy) In art.
Paestum (Italy) Buildings, structures, etc.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, issuing body.
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art issuing body.

Paestum in Eighteenth-Century Architectural Experience and Theory

Holdings:

Location: Library main 289759
Call No.: BIB 232365
Status: Available