Particolare Genere Di Architettura Proprio Degli Usi Domestici Decorato Con Ornamenti Di Svelte Forme Ed Impiegato con Poca Varietà Dai Più Rinomati Popoli Antichi Ora Solo Ordinato Con Metodo E Proposto Per La Decorazione Delle Fabbriche Moderne Construtte In parte Col Legno E Ferro Fuso Dal Commendatore Luigi Canina
Roma: Stabilimento Tipografico Di Gaetano A. Bertinelli,, MDCCCLII.
Physical Description
23, [3] p., 40 pl.; 500 mm. (Folio.)
Contents
[T.p.] - Prefazione - [Text] - Indice Delle Tavole ... - Imprimatur - Opere Principali Del Commendatore Luigi Canina ... - [Plates].
Responsibility Note
The plates are not signed.
References
On Pompeii and 'Roman Revival' see S. Panitz, ed., Pompeii as source and inspiration [exhibition catalogue] (1977); P. Werner, Pompei und die Wanddekoration der Goethezeit (1970). On Egyptian revivals see Egyptomania [exhibition catalogue] (1994).
Studies of Canina include S. Pasquali, 'Luigi Canina: architetto ed archeologo', in Rassegna, 55 (1993), p.44-52; W. Oechslin, 'Dekor und Architektur: Caninas Kritik an Paxtons Crystal Palace', in Kunstchronik, 30 (1977), p.120-22; C. Meeks, Italian architecture 1750-1914 (1966).
Summary Note
Plates 1-4 show Egyptian styles; 5. Babylonian; 6-9. Persian; 10. southern Italian; 11-23. Roman (drawing on excavations of Pompeii and Nero's Domus Aurea); 24-33. the Doric, Ionic and Corinthian orders and their accompanying decoration; 34, 35. Egyptian and Persian decoration. The last plates illustrate the application of ancient decorative styles to modern buildings - pl. 36, to a town house; 37. to a villa; 38. to a railway station; 39. to a theatre. Plate 40 shows the Crystal Palace, London.
Canina's book is an example of the influence of ancient, and particularly Roman and Pompeiian, decorative styles on nineteenth-century European designers. Germany and France provided the most thoroughgoing instances of the revival. British examples include a pavilion at Buckingham Palace (1838; destroyed), and a Roman Room at Ickworth, designed by J.D. Crace as late as 1879.
Provenance
2 December 1856: 'Ordered to purchase for the Library, L'Architettura Domestica' price £2 2s. 0.' (RA Council Minutes, XI, 183).
Subject
Architecture - Architecture, Italian - Architectural elements - Applied decoration - Interior decoration - Revival - Classical Revival - Pompeian Revival - Egyptian Revival - Houses - Dwellings - Italy - History - 19th century
Manuals - Style manuals - Pattern books - Italy - 19th century
Pictorial works - Italy - 19th century