Tracing architecture: the aesthetics of antiquarianism

Tracing Architecture looks at the impact that knowledge of ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman and British architecture had on aesthetic attitudes and architectural design. It explores the changing relationship between text and image in an era before the introduction of mass mechanical reproduction.
•Discusses the discovery of the ancient world through the medium of print in the long eighteenth century.
•Looks at the impact that knowledge of ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman and British architecture had on aesthetic attitudes and architectural design.
•Considers the interrelationship between architecture, antiquity and aesthetics in a pan-European context.
•Explores the changing relationship between text and image in an era before the introduction of mass mechanical reproduction.

'Tracing Architecture: the aesthetics of antiquarianism.' Chapter in this book contributed by Dana Arnold and Stephen Bending.
'Facts or fragments? Visual histories in the age of mechanical reproduction.' Chapter in this book contributed by Dana Arnold.