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The Grand Tour took many people of taste and wealth to Italy in the 18th century. Antique artefacts brought back from some of these travels form the nucleus of many of today’s museum collections. This...
Analyses the function and design of the Palazzo Pubblico, or city hall, built to honour and beautify the independent city-state. The celebrated frescos by Simone Martini and Ambrogio Lorenzetti provide an...
Looks at buildings and paintings of 18th-century Scotland and discusses them in the context of the society, politics and intellectual currents of the time, particularly in relation to the Enlightenment....
The temple buildings on the Acropolis are often seen as potent symbols of the birth of western civilisation, but what did they actually look like in the 5th century? What did it mean to the people who built...
According to Plato, Socrates playfully defined piety as ‘a sort of art of commerce between Gods and men’. Examining religious sites at Sonion, Brauron, Eleusis and around the Acropolis, suggests that...
The initial success of the Athenian empire was founded on the surplus revenue from the silver mines of the Laurion area. Examines how archaeologists go about testing such an idea. Uses excavations at the...
Examines the architecture and design of the church of All Saints, Margaret Street, London, relating its architectural form and decoration to its original function. Designed by Butterfield and begun in 1849,...
Discusses the Great Exhibition of 1851. Using contemporary newspaper and journal reports, investigates how the organisers expected the artistic exhibits to educate the ‘taste’ of the visitors. Shows how...
Follows the complex circumstances under which the Crystal Palace was designed by Joseph Paxton, using models at the Museum of London and identical old iron castings from Oxford station, and drawings...
Investigates the building of Cragside House by the Victorian architect Norman Shaw for the great armaments manufacturer Lord Armstrong. Begun as a relatively modest country retreat in 1863, the house was...
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