Classics at the dawn of the museum era : the life and times of Antoine Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy (1755-1849) /Louis A. Ruprecht Jr.
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| Author / Creator: | Ruprecht, Louis A., author. |
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Imprint: | New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. |
| Description: | xxviii, 269 pages ; 23 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9962128 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Preliminaries
- 1. A Rhetoric of Art and Religion, or, the Religion of Art
- 2. The Life and Times of Quatremère de Quincy
- 3. The Writings of Quatremère de Quincy "Methodological Encyclopedia: Architecture" (1788)
- "Considerations on the Arts of Design in France" (1791)
- "Letters to General Miranda" (1796)
- "On the State of Egyptian Architecture" (1803)
- "Moral Considerations on the Destination of Works of Art" (1815)
- "The Olympian Jupiter" (1815)
- "Letters Written from London to Rome and Addressed to Mr. Canova" (1818)
- "Collection of Essays on Various Ancient Subjects" (1819)
- "On the Ancient Statue of Venus Discovered on the Island of Milos in 1820" (1820)
- "An Essay on the Nature, the End, and the Means of Imitation in the Fine Arts" (1823)
- "Reconstruction of the Funeral Carriage that Transported Alexander the Great from Babylon to Egypt" (1827)
- "History of the Life and Works of the Most Famous Architects from the Eleventh through the Eighteenth Centuries" (1830)
- "Historical Dictionary of Architecture" (1832)
- "History of the Life and Works of Raphael" (1824, 1833)
- "Collection of Historical Notes, in Public Addresses Delivered to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts by M. Quatremère de Quincy, Perpetual Secretary of the Academy" (1834)
- "Canova and His Works, or, an Historical Memoir of the Life and Work of the Celebrated Artist" (1834)
- "History of the Life and Works of Michelangelo Buonarotti" (1835)
- "Letters on the Removal of Works of Ancient Art from Athens and Rome" (1836)
- "Further Collection of Historical Notes, in Public Addresses Delivered to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts by M. Quatremère de Quincy, Perpetual Secretary of the Academy" (1837)
- "Essay on the Ideal in Its Practical Application to Works of Imitation Appropriate to the Arts of Design" (1837)
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
