List of items exhibited

 
  Special Collections Exhibitions
  Unpacking Ruins: architecture from antiquity
  Introduction
  Wood - Palmyra & Baalbek
  Palaces & Baths
  Stuart - Athens v1-4
  Vitruvius & Fréart
  Palladio & Fréart
  Scamozzi & Serlio
  Palladio & Schenk
  Maggi & Ficoroni
  Major - Paestum
  Adam brothers
  Cameron & Russia
  Rome: decline & fall
  The New Zealander
  Meditation & the pleasure of ruins
  Towards a new architecture
  List of items

 

Case 1

1

Wood, Robert.
The ruins of Palmyra, otherwise Tedmor, in the desart [sic]. London: [s.n.], 1753.
de Beer Ee/1753/W

2

Wood, Robert.
The ruins of Balbec, otherwise Heliopolis in Coelosyria. London: [s.n.], 1757.
de Beer Ee/1757/W

Case 2

3

Adam, Robert.
Rvins of the palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia, London: [s.n.], 1764.
de Beer Ee/1764/A

4

Cameron, Charles.
The Baths of the Romans Explained and Illustrated. With the restorations of Palladio corrected and improved. London: Printed by George Scott, 1772.
de Beer Ee/1772/C

Case 3

5

Stuart, James.
The antiquities of Athens, measured and delineated. London: Priestley and Weale, 1825-1830.
Stack ++ NA/280/SX35 v.1

Case 3 drawer 1

6

Vitruvius, Pollio.
De architectura libri decem ad Caes. Augustum : omnibus omnium editionibus longe emendatiores, collatis veteribus exemplis. Lugduni: Apud I. Tornaesium, 1586.
de Beer Fb/1586/V

7

Fréart, Roland, sieur de Chambray.
A parallel of the antient architecture with the modern: in a collection of ten principal authors who have written upon the five orders ... London: Printed by Tho. Roycroft for John Place, 1664.
de Beer Ec/1664/F c.1

Case 3 drawer 2

8

Fréart, Roland, sieur de Chambray.
A parallel of the antient architecture with the modern: in a collection of ten principal authors who have written upon the five orders ... London: Printed by Tho. Roycroft for John Place, 1664.
de Beer Ec/1664/F c.2

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Palladio, Andrea.
Le terme dei Romani. Per Giovanni Rossi. Vicenza: [s.n.], 1797.
de Beer Collection Ib/1797/P

Case 4

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Stuart, James.
The antiquities of Athens, measured and delineated. London: Priestley and Weale, 1825-1830.
Stack ++ NA/280/SX35 v.2

Case 5

11

Stuart, James.
The antiquities of Athens, measured and delineated. London: Priestley and Weale, 1825-1830.
Stack ++ NA/280/SX35 v.3

Case 6

12

Stuart, James.
The antiquities of Athens, measured and delineated. London: Priestley and Weale, 1825-1830.
Stack ++ NA/280/SX35 v.4

Case 7

13

Scamozzi, Vincenzo.
Discorsi sopra l'antichita di Roma di Vicenzo Scamozzi, architetto Vicentino : con XL tauole in rame. Venetia: Appresso Francesco Ziletti, 1582.
de Beer Ic/1582/S

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Serlio, Sebastiano.
Tvtte l'opere d'archittetvra, et prospetiva. [Venetia]: G. de' Franceschi, 1619.
de Beer Ib/1619/S

Case 7 drawer 1

15

Palladio, Andrea.
I qvattro libri dell'architettvra di Andrea Palladio ; ne'quali, dopo vn breue trattato de'cinque ordini, & di quelli auertimenti … Venetia: Appresso Bartolomea Carampello, 1581.
de Beer Ic/1581/P

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Schenk, Peter.
Roma aeterna Petri Schenkii; sive, Ipsius aedificiorum Romanorum integrorum collapsorumque conspectus duplex. Amsterdam: [s.n.], 1705.
de Beer Lc/1705/S

Case 7 drawer 2

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Maggi, Giovanni.
Aedificiorvm et rvinarvm Romae ex antiqvis atqve hodiernis monimentis liber primus [-secundus]. Romae: [s.n.], 1618.
de Beer Ic/1618/M

18

Ficoroni, Francesco.
Le vestigia e rarita di Roma antica. Roma: Stamperia di G. Mainardi, 1744.
de Beer Ic/1744/F c.1

Case 8

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Major, Thomas.
The ruins of Pæstum, otherwise Posidonia, in Magna Græcia. London: T. Major, 1768.
de Beer Ee/1768/M

Case 8 drawer 1

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Adam, Robert.
The works in architecture of Robert and James Adam. Academy Editions. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1975.
NA/997/A4/ON3

Case 8 drawer 2

21

Charles Cameron, c. 1740-1812, architectural drawings and photographs from the Hermitage Collection, Leningrad and Architectural Museum, Moscow. [s.l.]: Arts Council, [1967?]
NA/997/C3/A4/1967

 

22

Voronov, M. G.
Arkhitekturnyi ansambl Kamerona v Pushkine. [Leningrad]: Lenizdat, 1982.
NA/997/C3/VY27

 

23

Voronov, M. G.
Arkhitekturnyi ansambl Kamerona v Pushkine, Izd. 2. [Leningrad]: Lenizdat, 1990.
NA/997/C3/VY27/1990

Case 9

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Kennett, Basil.
Romae antiquae notitia: or, the antiquities of Rome. In two parts. … The thirteenth edition, corrected and improved. London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, J. and T. Pote, C. Bathurst, B. Dod, J. Rivington …, 1763.
de Beer Eb/1763/K

25

Gibbon, Edward.
The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire … London: Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1789.
de Beer Ec/1789/G v.2

Case 10

26

Thomas Babington Macaulay. Review of von Ranke's "The ecclesiastical and political history of the Popes of Rome, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries," Edinburgh review. v. 72, October 1840: 227-258.
137 Leith St: Bliss Journals AP/4/E32

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Doré, Gustave. "The New Zealander" in
London : a pilgrimage, Blanchard Jerrold (ed). London: Grant & Co., 1872.
Stack + DA/683/JJ7

Case 11

28

Volney, C.F.
Les ruines, ou, Meditations sur les revolutions des empires: suivies de la loi naturelle et de l'histoire de Samuel. Paris: Garnier. [18--].
109 Leith St: Bliss L4/V

29

Macaulay, Rose, Dame.
Pleasure of ruins. London: Weidenfield and Nicolson, 1953.
109 Leith St: Bliss LA/M

30

Woodward, Christopher.
In ruins. London: Chatto & Windus, 2001.
N/8237.8/R8/WW51

Case 12

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Le Corbusier.
Vers une architecture. Novelle édition revue et augmentée. 8th ed. Paris: G. Crès Cie, [1924]
NA/2520/L4/A55

 

32

Le Corbusier.
Towards a new architecture: trans from the thirteenth French edition. London: John Rodker, 1931.
NA/2520/L4/A55/1931

Interactive feature

Major, Thomas.
aLes ruines de Paestum. Originally published: Londres, 1768. Gregg International, 1969.
Stack ++ NA/285/P3/M678

Pictorial material

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.
Veduta dell' anfiteatro Flavio detto il Colosseo (View of the Flavian amphitheare, called the Colosseum), 1776. From the series Vedute di Roma.
Charles Brasch estate. Special Collections, Central Library.

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.
Sepolcro di Cecilia Metella (The Tomb of Caecilia Metella), 1762. From the series Vedute di Roma.
Charles Brasch estate. Special Collections, Central Library.

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.
Rovine del Sisto, a sia della gran sala delle terme Antoniniane (Ruins of the Xystus, the central hall of the Antonine Baths), 1765. From the series Vedute di Roma.
Charles Brasch estate. Special Collections, Central Library.

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.
Veduta degli avanzi superiori delle Terme di Diocleziano (View of the remains of the Baths of Diocletian), 1774. From the series Vedute di Roma.
Charles Brasch estate. Special Collections, Central Library.
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.
Veduta della fonte e dette Spelonche d'Egeria fuor della porta Capena or di S. Sebno (The fountain and grotto of Egeria outside Porta Capena), 1766. From the series Vedute di Roma.
Charles Brasch estate. Special Collections, Central Library.
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.
Ornamenti di Stucco, esistenti nella Volta della Stanza Sepolcrate di L. Arrunzio (Stucco decoration in the tomb chamber of L. Arruntius), 1756.
From the series Antichita Romane.
Charles Brasch estate. Special Collections, Central Library.
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.
A muro interna della Stanza, costrutto di mattoni della stessa grandezza, che qui sono disegnati contale sodezza, connessione, ed artificio, che ben vi si conoscono tutte le regole, le quali sono state descritte da Vitruvio per costruire i mattonati (Interior wall of the funerary room), 1756.
From the series Antichita Romane.
Charles Brasch estate. Special Collections, Central Library.
Hutton, David Edward, 1866-1946.
No.10. The Ionic, Corinthian and Doric Orders' capitals columns and mouldings.[For Art Masters Certificate] Presented by D.E. Hutton, 1898. Hocken Library.

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Pictorial material displayed in the Charles Brasch Court

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.
Veduta dell interno dell' Anfiteatro Flavio (interior view of the Flavian Amphitheatre). 1766. From the series Vedute di Roma.
Charles Brasch estate. Special Collections, Central Library.

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.
Veduta interna della Villa di Mecenate dall iscria... (Interior of the Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli), 1764.
From the series Vedute di Roma.
Charles Brasch estate. Special Collections, Central Library.
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.
Veduta del l'arco di Benevento nel regno di Napoli (The Arch of Beneventum), 1778. From the series Vedute di Roma.
Charles Brasch estate. Special Collections, Central Library.
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.
Veduta dell'avanzo del Castello, che prendendo una porzione dell'Acqua Guilia dal Condoto principale (Fountain of the Acqua Guilia and the gate of the Villa Palombara), 1753. From the series Vedute di Roma.
Charles Brasch estate. Special Collections, Central Library.
 

 

 

   
   
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