Housing the New Romans Architectural Reception and Classical Style in the Modern World

353 Pages·2017·25.47 MB·English

by  Katharine T. von Stackelberg

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Housing the New Romans
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Housing the New Romans
Architectural Reception and Classical
Style in the Modern World
Edited by Katharine T. von Stackelberg
and Elizabeth Macaulay- Lewis
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments xvii
Notes on Contributors xix
Introduction: Architectural Reception and the Neo- Antique 1
Katharine T. von Stackelberg and
Elizabeth Macaulay- Lewis
CHAPTER 1 (Re)presenting Romanitas at Sir John Soane’s House and
Villa 24
Ann Kuttner
CHAPTER 2 The Hôtel de Beauharnais in Paris: Egypt, Greece, Rome,
and the Dynamics of Stylistic Transformation 54
Caroline van Eck and Miguel John Versluys
CHAPTER 3 The History of Human Habitation: Ancient Domestic
Architecture in Nineteenth- Century Europe 92
Shelley Hales
CHAPTER 4 Domestic Interiors, National Concerns: The Pompeian
Style in the United States 126
Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols
CHAPTER 5 The Impossible Exedra: Engineering Contemplation and
Conviviality in Turn- of- the- Century America 153
Melody Barnett Deusner
CHAPTER 6 Entombing Antiquity: A New Consideration of Classical
and Egyptian Appropriation in the Funerary Architecture
of Woodlawn Cemetery, New York City 190
Elizabeth Macaulay- Lewis
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CHAPTER 7 Reconsidering Hyperreality: “Roman” Houses and Their
Gardens 232
Katharine T. von Stackelberg
Afterword: New Romans, New Directions 269
Katharine T. von Stackelberg and
Elizabeth Macaulay- Lewis
Bibliography 277
Index 309
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
1.1 View of Soane’s Study in Lincoln’s Inn Fields with cast of the
Apotheosis of Homer relief by Archelaos of Priene (Hellenistic
original from Bovillae, now in British Museum [1819,0812.1]). Plate
VII in John Soane, 1835, Description of the House and Museum
on the North Side of Lincoln’s Inn Fields, the Residence of Sir John
Soane (Courtesy of the G. Holmes Perkins Rare Book Collection,
Fisher Fine Arts Library, University of Pennsylvania). 32
1.2 Fresco from the Roman house discovered at the Villa Negroni
in Rome (1777), second century AD. Hand-colored engraving by
Angelo Campanella after an image by Anton Raphael Mengs,
published by Camillo Buti, 1778. Plate III (bathing Venus with
Cupids and nymph) from a series of eight in the Breakfast
Room of the House Museum (Sir John Soane’s House Museum,
reference number P 158; Courtesy of the Sir John Soane’s
Museum). see color insert
1.3 Breakfast Parlor at Pitzhanger Manor, watercolor drawing by
J. M. Gandy, 1802–1803 (Sir John Soane’s House Museum,
reference number (205) F42; Courtesy of Sir John Soane’s
Museum). see color insert
1.4 Library at Pitzhanger Manor, looking toward the Breakfast
Room, watercolor drawing by J. M. Gandy made for the Royal
Academy exhibition, 1803 (Sir John Soane’s House Museum,
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reference number (221) F41; Courtesy of the Sir John Soane’s
Museum). 46
1.5 The Breakfast Room of Sir John Soane’s House Museum,
detail with Buti prints (Photo: Hugh Kelly; Courtesy of Sir John
Soane’s Museum). see color insert
1.6 The Breakfast Room of Sir John Soane’s House Museum,
“view looking into the Museum,” with the series of Buti plates.
Plate XXXI in John Soane, 1835, Description of the House
and Museum on the North Side of Lincoln’s Inn Fields, the
Residence of Sir John Soane (Courtesy of the G. Holmes Perkins
Rare Book Collection, Fisher Fine Arts Library, University of
Pennsylvania). 50
1.7 The Breakfast Room of Sir John Soane, two sections showing
the series of Buti plates of the Roman house at the Villa Negroni.
Plate XXX in John Soane, 1835, Description of the House
and Museum on the North Side of Lincoln’s Inn Fields, the
Residence of Sir John Soane (Courtesy of the G. Holmes Perkins
Rare Book Collection, Fisher Fine Arts Library, University of
Pennsylvania). 51
2.1a and b. Hôtel de Torcy, courtyard facade (a) and the garden
facade oriented toward the Seine, Germain Boffrand, from Jean
Mariette’s Architecture Française, Paris, 1727 (Courtesy Institut
National d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris). (b) 58
2.2a and b. Hôtel de Torcy, plans of the ground floor (a) and
first floor (b), Germain Boffrand, from Jean Mariette’s
Architecture Française, Paris, 1727 (Courtesy of Institut National
d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris). 59
2.3 View of the court of the Hôtel de Beauharnais, watercolor, Jean-
Thomas Thibault, 1816. The figures of Prussian soldiers were later
added by Carle Vernet on the request of Alexander von Humboldt
(Courtesy of Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-
Brandenburg). see color insert
2.4 Design for an Egyptian Temple and Portico for the Château de
Valençay, Jean-Augustin Renard (Courtesy of Institut National
d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris). 60
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2.5 Antinous, Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet (attr.), turquoise marble, c.
1803– 1806, currently in the Musée Marmottan (C. van Eck and
M. J. Versluys). 63
2.6 Cheminée exécutée chez le Prince Eugène, frontal view, details
and view of the chimney mantle surface, Lucien-François
Feuchère, 1804– 1806 (Courtesy of Musée des Arts Décoratifs,
Paris). 64
2.7 Kneeling Nubian Women Candelabra, gilt bronze, Lucien-
François Feuchère, 1804– 1806 (Hôtel de Beauharnais, Grande
Galerie; Courtesy of Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte,
Paris). 65
2.8 Hôtel de Beauharnais, Grand Salon, now Salon des Quatre
Saisons, with paintings of the four seasons attributed to the studio
of Anne Girodet-T rioson, 1803–1 806 (Courtesy of Deutsches
Forum für Kunstgeschichte, Paris). see color insert
2.9 Hôtel de Beauharnais, Salon de Musique, with paintings attributed
to the studio of Anne Girodet- Trioson, 1803– 1806 (Courtesy of
Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte, Paris). 66
2.10 Hôtel de Beauharnais, Cabinet des bains with reflecting mirrors,
1803– 1806 (Courtesy of Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York/
Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte, Paris). 67
2.11 Hôtel de Beauharnais, Turkish Boudoir with scenes from
Ottoman life, 1803–1 806 (Courtesy of Deutsches Forum für
Kunstgeschichte, Paris). 68
2.12 Frontispiece of the Description de l’Égypte, Antoine Cécile, Paris
1809 (Courtesy of Centre historique des Archives nationales-
Atelier de photographie). 69
2.13 Pendule “portique à l’égyptienne”, 1807– 1808, gilt copper
alliage, with a mechanism by Lépine. (Courtesy of Musée
National du Palais de Compiègne). 82
3.1 View of L’Histoire de l’habitation humaine exhibition from the
corner of the Roman House (N.B. This is an inverted image)
(Courtesy of Henry Clay Cochrane Collection, 1889 (COLL/1).
At the Marine Corps Archives and Special Collections; official
USMC photograph). 93
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