Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

The Afterlife of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus

Re-conceiving an Ancient Wonder in Early Modern Europe

Av Desmond Bryan Kraege, Felix Martin

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Beskrivning

Few buildings have been as important to Western culture as the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus. One of the Seven Wonders of antiquity, it was destroyed during the Middle Ages, leading countless architects, antiquarians, painters and printmakers in Early Modern Europe to speculate upon its appearance. This book - the first on its subject - examines their works, from erudite publications to simple pen sketches, from elegant watercolours to complete buildings inspired by the monument. Spanning the period between the Italian Renaissance and the discovery and archaeological excavation of the Mausoleum's foundations in the 1850s, it covers the most important cultural contexts of Western Europe, without neglecting artworks from Peru, China and Japan. The monument's connexion with themes of widowhood and female political power are analysed, as are the manifold interactions between architecture, text and image in the afterlife of the Mausoleum. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2026-08-20
Mått: 225 x 286 x 20 mm
Vikt: 500 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 246
Förlag: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781009728614

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Desmond Bryan Kraege is Lecturer in Early Modern art history at the University of Lausanne, having previously held postdoctoral research fellowships at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and Princeton University. Grants and prizes he has received include awards from the Swiss National Science Foundation, the University of Lausanne, and the VKKS Association of Swiss Art Historians. His research interests encompass the study of architectural images, historical temporality, and the interactions between science and landscape representation in eighteenth-century Europe. Felix Martin is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair for Architectural History, RWTH Aachen University. Funded by the German Academic Exchange Service and the German Scholarship Foundation, he has previously conducted research at Trinity College Dublin and the Warburg Institute London. His research explores the architectural influence of the Grand Tour and the emergence of public architecture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the legacy of the eighteenth century in twentieth-century architecture, and the processes of democratisation in post-war West German architecture. He is co-founder of smaa studio architects and editor of the architectural history and theory journal archimaera.

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'From the Renaissance through the Victorian era, architects mused on the surviving ekphrastic descriptions of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, producing imaginative reconstructions and original designs. The essays comprising this volume explore key moments in the rich afterlife of a major monument, illuminating its place in the history of western architecture.' John Pinto, Princeton University

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