Main entry:

Pearce, Susan M., author.

Title & Author:

Charles Robert Cockerell in the Mediterranean : letters and travels, 1810-1817 / Susan Pearce and Theresa Ormrod.

Publication:

Woodbridge, Suffolk : The Boydell Press, 2017.
©2017

Description:

xii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-310) and index.
Part one: travels and travellers -- Introduction: life before departure -- Athens, Aegina and the Morea -- Asia Minor, Sicily, Albania and Italy -- Visions of Hellas -- The spirit of the time -- Homecomings -- Part two: letters -- Introduction to the letters -- The letters -- Appendix 1: sources -- Appendix 2: biographical notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Summary:

Charles R. Cockerell (1788-1863) was one of the most significant nineteenth-century British architects and a major player in the cultural shift from the Georgian eighteenth to the Victorian nineteenth century. Cockerell's travels in the eastern Mediterranean between 1810 and 1817 were the formative experience of his life. His forty letters from this period, held in the archives of the Royal Institute of British Architects and published here for the first time, give crucial day-to-day insights into his actions, thoughts and feelings in relation to the intricate histories of the re-discovery and sales of the Aegina and Bassae marbles and, equally importantly, illuminate his hugely significant work on temple architecture and sculpture in mainland Greece, the great cities of Asia Minor, and the significant temples of Sicily. 0Drawing on these letters, and on some 150 unpublished letters sent by his friends while they were all in Greece and now held in the British Museum, this book elucidates what Cockerell did and why by analyzing his methods of work and their significance. It discusses Cockerell's aesthetic and conceptual development during his time abroad, particularly his influential part in the changing vision of Greek sculpture and architecture, from Winkelmann's static ideal to one rooted in dramatic tension and contextual contingency.

ISBN:

9781783272068 (hbk.)
1783272066

Subject:

Cockerell, C. R. (Charles Robert), 1788-1863 Travel Mediterranean Region.
Cockerell, C. R. (Charles Robert), 1788-1863 Correspondence.
Cockerell, C. R. (Charles Robert), 1788-1863
Cockerell, Charles Robert 1788-1863
Architects Great Britain Correspondence.
Architectes Grande-Bretagne Correspondance.
Travel.
Architects.
Mediterranean Region.
Great Britain.
Mittelmeerraum

Form/genre:

Personal correspondence.
Correspondance privée.

Added entries:

Ormrod, Theresa, author.
Cockerell, C. R. (Charles Robert), 1788-1863.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 299506
Call No.: BIB 245627
Status: Available