Rediscovering Architecture: Paestum in Eighteenth-Century Architectural Experience and Theory
Rediscovering Architecture: Paestum in Eighteenth-Century Architectural Experience and Theory
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Jong, Sigrid de. Rediscovering Architecture: Paestum in Eighteenth-Century Architectural Experience and Theory
Yale Univ. Press
Cl. 2014
Book ID: 97257
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 Paestums 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.
352 pp.
