Colloque : “Early Modern Viewers and Buildings in Motion”

Fischer von Erlach, "Tour de Nankin", in Plan of Civil and Historical Architecture, 1721
Fischer von Erlach, “Tour de Nankin”, in Plan of Civil and Historical Architecture, 1721.

Type : Colloque
Date : 25 février 2017.
Lieu : University of Cambridge, St. John’s College, Old Divinity School.

Movement, both literal and metaphorical, lies at the heart of early modern European architectural theory, design and experience. Architectural authors invoked the notion of progress as temporal motion, structured their books as tours of buildings, and followed the ancient Roman Vitruvius in explaining how to manipulate the motions of winds through building design.  Simultaneously, poets led their readers on tours of house and estate, and Aristotelian as well as mechanistic philosophers averred that motion was inherent to human perception from particle vibrations in one’s senses to neural vibrations in one’s brain.  Across a range of scales in actual lived experience, moreover, viewers and buildings were frequently in motion; people walked through built spaces, interiors contained portable furnishings, and travellers and prints circulated ideas of buildings internationally. Continuer la lecture de Colloque : “Early Modern Viewers and Buildings in Motion”

Publication : “Baroque Antiquity. Archaeological Imagination in Early Modern Europe”.

TSCHUDI Victor Plahte, Baroque Antiquity. Archaeological Imagination in Early Modern Europe, Cambridge, Cambridge university press, septembre 2016, 100 p.
TSCHUDI Victor Plahte, Baroque Antiquity. Archaeological Imagination in Early Modern Europe, Cambridge, Cambridge university press, septembre 2016, 100 p.

Présentation de l’éditeur :

Why were seventeenth-century antiquarians so spectacularly wrong? Even if they knew what ancient monuments looked like, they deliberately distorted the representation of them in print. Deciphering the printed reconstructions of Giacomo Lauro and Athanasius Kircher, this pioneering study uncovers an antiquity born with print culture itself and from the need to accommodate competitive publishers, ambitious patrons and powerful popes. By analysing the elements of fantasy in Lauro and Kircher’s archaeological visions, new levels of meaning appear. Instead of being testimonies of failed archaeology, they emerge as complex architectural messages responding to moral, political, and religious issues of the day. This book combines several histories – print, archaeology, and architecture – in the attempt to identify early modern strategies of recovering lost Rome. Many books have been written on antiquity in the Renaissance, but this book defines an antiquity that is particularly Baroque.

Victor Plahte Tschudi is a Professor in Architectural History at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. He writes on the interpretation of Roman monuments in texts and images from the Renaissance to the present.

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