Building on Ruins: The Rediscovery of Rome and English Architecture - Hardcover

Salmon, Frank

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 075460358X ISBN 13: 9780754603580

Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

Charles Barry's victory in the competition to design the new Houses of Parliament in 1836 has been widely regarded as the moment in English architecture when the influence of Greece gave way to Victorian Gothic. In this illustrated book, Frank Salmon redirects attention to major classically-inspired buildings in Birmingham, Cambridge, Liverpool and the City of London, also commissioned in this period after competitions had been held. He argues that these buildings bear witness to a self-conscious and more widespread identification with the ancient Roman world among the English middle classes, an identification tied to the expression of civic culture and pride during this time of political upheaval and social reform. The 18th-century fascination with the classical world, manifested in the Grand Tour and in British country houses, is a much-studied cultural phenomenon. In this book, Frank Salmon shows how study in Italy, an essential part of British architectural training in the second h

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About the Author

Frank Salmon is a Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Manchester.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 075460358X
• ISBN 13: 9780754603580
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 248