Luciana Gallo

Lord Elgin and Ancient Greek Architecture

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses the collection of archaeological drawings drawn in Greece by a team of artists and architects in the service of Lord Elgin.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 286mm x 221mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 1177g
• ISBN-13: 9780521881630
• ISBN-10: 0521881633
• Artikelnr.: 25043348

Autorenporträt

Luciana Gallo is a RIBA chartered architect and historic building consultant. Her education and academic career started in Italy and developed in the UK where she completed a Ph.D. in History of Architecture at the Courtauld Institute of Art. She is a Research Associate within the School of Architecture, University of Liverpool, on a EU-funded project which involved extensive fieldwork in the Middle East. She now practises in London. She is the author of Il Politeama di Palermo e l'architettura policroma dell'Ottocento.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Early expeditions to Greece
2. Lord Elgin's eastern expedition
3. History of the Elgin drawings
4. Critical analysis of the Elgin drawings
5. Conclusions.