A POLITICAL ‘HUMBUG’: DELIAN ANTIQUITIES AT SISSINGHURST CASTLE

IF 0.2 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
J. Kierkuć-Bieliński
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In 1936 the author, politician and garden designer Harold Nicolson bought four, round antique altars and a Corinthian capital from the sale of Shanganagh Castle, Co Wicklow. Nicolson and his wife, Vita Sackville-West, placed these marbles in a garden compartment at Sissinghurst that was intended to evoke the landscape and antiquities of the Cycladic island of Delos. These are among the most important antiquities in the collections of the National Trust, yet their provenance and significance has been obscured by their presumed status as ‘mere’ ornaments to the celebrated gardens at Sissinghurst Castle. This paper traces the provenance of this group of antiquities back to Delos and their discovery by a hero of the Greek War of Independence. Historic context for Vita and Harold’s use of the altars as adornments to their garden will be examined in the context of earlier use of similar Delian altars in earlier garden design – the seventeenth-century ‘garden museum’ at Arundel House, Strand, London, or the eighteenth-century gardens at Wrest Park. Finally, entry of the Sissinghurst altars into British collections will be examined through a political lens and through Nicolson’s philhellenism.
政治上的“骗子”:锡辛赫斯特城堡的德利安古物
1936年,作家、政治家和花园设计师哈罗德·尼科尔森(Harold Nicolson)从出售科威克洛(Co Wicklow)的尚纳格城堡(Shangangh Castle)中购买了四座圆形古董祭坛和一座科林斯式柱头。尼科尔森和他的妻子维塔·萨克维尔·韦斯特将这些大理石放置在Sissinghurst的一个花园隔间里,旨在唤起基克拉迪岛德洛斯的景观和文物。这些是国家信托基金收藏的最重要的文物之一,但它们的来源和意义却被认为是西辛赫斯特城堡著名花园的“纯粹”装饰品而掩盖了。本文将这组文物的来源追溯到德洛斯,以及希腊独立战争英雄的发现。Vita和Harold使用祭坛作为花园装饰的历史背景将在早期花园设计中使用类似的Delian祭坛的背景下进行研究——位于伦敦斯特兰德阿伦德尔大厦的17世纪“花园博物馆”或位于Wrest公园的18世纪花园。最后,Sissinghurst祭坛进入英国收藏将通过政治视角和尼科尔森的爱乐主义进行审查。
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