title parthenon (4 risultati)

[Mainz], [Philipp von Zabern], [1986]. 2 vols (text & plates). 111, 8 pp. [228] b./w. ills on 139 plts. Orig. uniform hardcovers (boards). 4to. (Studien der Skulpturhalle Basel, Heft 2).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 2 Volumes. Folio. xii,247pp. Text illustrations. Volume 2 features 244 pages of b&w illustrations. Cloth (institutional bookplate on front endleaf).

Condizione: Very Good. First edition. Full title in English and French: The Parthenon Naos, from the Author's Forthcoming Book Entitled The Recovery of Art, the Present Sheets Being a Communication Addressed to Charles Marie Widor, Perpetual Secretary of the Institute of France. Le Naos du Parthénon. Du livre de l'auteur prêt à apparaître intitulé Le Recouvrement de l'art, ces feuilles étant une communication adressée à Charles-Marie Widor, Secrétaire perpétuel de l'Institut de France. A theoretical work on the architecture of the naos of the Parthenon, the nave in which the statue of Athena was situated. Supplementary notes by the author tipped in at front.

A scarce broadside advertising the Philadelphia exhibition of sculptures copying art from the Parthenon which had been absconded by Lord Elgin and put on display at the British Museum. The taking of the so-called "Elgin Marbles" was controversial in its day, and remains even more so two centuries later. The general public was thrilled to be able to see these masterworks of classical sculpture, and in 1824 the sculptor John Graham Lough went to England to study them. He recreated the scene of the mythical battle between the Centaurs and Lapithae, and displayed the work at the Pennsylvania Academy in Philadelphia. OCLC lists only one copy of this broadside describing the exhibition, at the Library Company of Philadelphia. That copy bears a manuscript date of January 30, 1836, hence our presumed dating of the publication. This exhibition occurred at the height of the Greek Revival period in America, and was cited in an 1837 guide to Philadelphia. A part of the text of the broadside describes the mythic battle. OCLC 85222052. Some light edge wear. A bit of soiling. Very good.