The Quest for an Appropriate Past in Literature, Art and Architecture最新文献

{"title":"An Appropriated History: The Case of the Amsterdam Town Hall (1648–1667)","authors":"P. Vlaardingerbroek","doi":"10.1163/9789004378216_019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004378216_019","url":null,"abstract":"The origins of the design of the Amsterdam Town Hall (now Royal Palace) are discussed here, focussing on the Palace and Temple of Solomon.","PeriodicalId":104280,"journal":{"name":"The Quest for an Appropriate Past in Literature, Art and Architecture","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125899477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Phoenician Ireland: Charles Vallancey (1725–1812) and the Oriental Roots of Celtic Culture","authors":"B. Roling","doi":"10.1163/9789004378216_028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004378216_028","url":null,"abstract":"In the eighteenth century Ireland was not the centre of the world.1 It was a land dominated and exploited by England, with a rural population who were regarded as barbarians at best by the gentlemen at home in the clubs and coffee houses of England’s cities. For them, the native language of the Irish was no more than an incomprehensible squawking that needn’t be accorded any further significance. Would it not, then, be a magnificent surprise, almost a humbling of Anglophile arrogance, if the Irish turned out to be the descendants of the ancient Chaldees, Phoenicians, Scythians and Indians, the crowning jewel in a chain of heroic acts reaching back into a prehistory, which was able to supersede any other chain of historical events? Would it not be a wonder if the Land of Saints and Scholars, with its ancient monuments, poetry and songs, were the final record of a primordial European people whose wisdom united the learning of the whole ancient East? The history of the early modern period is full of examples of national idealisation, of phantasmagoric constructions that raised one’s own people to the skies.2 In Ireland’s case, in the late eighteenth century this eulogy would be sung by a man of whom one would perhaps have expected it least, namely a general in the British army, whose natural habitat was the aforementioned coffee houses. I will here present this scholar, Charles Vallancey, and his works: I will try to outline the basic elements of his decidedly idiosyncratic construction of history and in so doing set it in the wider context of the history of European antiquarianism, a field not short of eccentrics. A few examples, at least, will be given to illustrate Vallancey’s intellectual world, working habits and method; in particular I wish to show that","PeriodicalId":104280,"journal":{"name":"The Quest for an Appropriate Past in Literature, Art and Architecture","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122730077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A City in Quest of an Appropriate Antiquity: The Arena of Verona and Its Influence on Architectural Theory in the Early Modern Era","authors":"Hubertus Günther","doi":"10.1163/9789004378216_005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004378216_005","url":null,"abstract":"the manner of this articulation is obviously very different from those used in Rome, and I for my part would not adopt members such as those of the Amphitheatre in Rome in my works, but would willingly avail my­ self of those of the building in Pola, as they are done in a better manner and are better conceived, and I am sure that this was done by a different architect and that by chance he [i.e. the one of the Coliseum] he was a German, because the members of the Coliseum have something of the German manner.1","PeriodicalId":104280,"journal":{"name":"The Quest for an Appropriate Past in Literature, Art and Architecture","volume":"16 18","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131505432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Epigraphy and Blurring Senses of the Past in Early Modern Travelling Men of Letters: The Case of Arnoldus Buchelius","authors":"H. Hendrix","doi":"10.1163/9789004378216_016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004378216_016","url":null,"abstract":"Whereas early modern intellectuals all over Europe were deeply informed by the orientation on classical culture their breeding had presented as preferred cultural and civic model, their understanding and appreciation of heritage was far more flexible. Though maintaining and indeed cultivating attitudes and methodologies acquired in a scholarly formation focused on the antiquity, from the early sixteenth century onwards men of letters started to develop an interest in various kinds of heritage, old and recent, nearby and far away, sometimes aware of the distinctiveness of the various categories taken into consideration, but often not. This chapter intends to assess how particularly in the community of antiquarians programmatically oriented towards the heritage of the antiquity, medieval and even more recent heritage gradually came to attract an attention that in some instances even surpassed the focus on the classics. While doing so, it will illustrate that in this period a clear-cut distinction between an orientation towards ancient and more recent heritage was not as sharp as conventionally assumed, which clearly holds some consequences as to the main issue addressed in this book. If the boundaries between the various categories of “past” that may be seen as appropriate were in fact rather blurred, one may ask if it is still possible to conjecture that some elements in the past were considered to be appropriate and others not, or – conversely – should we conclude that early modern culture appreciated all heritage as being appropriate, without distinction? To tackle this question, in this essay I focus not only on which past was being targeted by the antiquarians here presented, but also on the motivations that guided them to do so and the tools they used in their endeavours. One of the central hypotheses that inform this survey is indeed the idea that early modern intellectuals might have been flexible as to content, but were not with regard to method. On the contrary: the stability and continuity of their scholarly attitudes and instruments permitted and even invited the exploration of all kinds of evidence beyond the ancient ones learned about during education, and therefore made an interest in various and alternative pasts feasible and","PeriodicalId":104280,"journal":{"name":"The Quest for an Appropriate Past in Literature, Art and Architecture","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131098295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Writing about Romano-British Architecture in the Late Seventeenth Century","authors":"M. Walker","doi":"10.1163/9789004378216_025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004378216_025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":104280,"journal":{"name":"The Quest for an Appropriate Past in Literature, Art and Architecture","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115442313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}