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Lord Elgin and Ancient Greek Architecture: the Elgin Drawings at the British Museum Luciana Gallo Index More Information Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-88163-0 - Lord Elgin and Ancient Greek Architecture: The Elgin Drawings at the British Museum Luciana Gallo Index More information Index Illustrations are indicated by italic page numbers Accademia del Disegno (Naples), 34 Theatre and Odeion, 137 Accademia della Pace (Rome), 35, 40, 309n85, 89, 310n94; 36, 37 Temple of Hera, 75 Accademia di S. Luca (Rome), 8, 34, 35, 299n29, 308n81, 309n86, 87, Arundel, Thomas Howard, 2nd earl of, 8, 298n24 310n105 Athens Acrocorinth, 71, 73, 74 Choiseul-Gouffier in, 14–16 Acropolis (Athens) Ciriaco d’Ancona in, 4 Elgin’s artists access to, 59, 60, 65 Le Roy in, 13–14 See also Athens Nointel in, 8–9 Aegina, 30, 50, 51, 52, 55, 71, 72, 79, 84, 125, 318n9 Spon and Wheler in, 9–11 Temples of Aphaia, 52, 75, 83, 313n9, 318n14; 76–78 StuartandRevettin,12–13 Temple of Apollo, 75, 83; 76 under Turkish rule, 5–6 Port, 75, 83, 125, 316n9, 323n135; 135 Venetian occupation of, 6, 298n22 Aglauros, Temple of. See Athens Buildings and Monumental Sites Agrigentum (Sicily), 11, 58 Acropolis, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 49, 59, 60, 65, 67, 69, 70, 84, 85, 88, 89, 94, Oratory of Phalaris, 59, 85; 59 148, 159, 319n28 Roman sarcophagus, in the cathedral, 51, 58, 167, 313n27, 314n38; Cave of Pan, 67, 69; 7 167 Choragic Monument of Lysicrates (Lantern of Demosthenes), 10, 44, Temple of Concord, 51, 58, 59, 141; 58 51, 58, 59, 60, 65, 84, 88, 123, 125, 143, 158, 167; 87, 130–134, 164–165 Temple of Juno Lacinia, 59 Choragic Monument of Thrasyllus, 44, 58, 60, 84, 106, 107; 46, Temple of Zeus Olympios, 59, 84 113–115 Agrippa, Marcus Vipsanius, Monument of. See Athens Doric Portico, 10, 50, 84 Ainslie, sir Robert, 23, 24, 34, 305n44 Erechtheion, 16, 21, 44, 58, 84, 87, 88, 90, 102, 103, 106, 143, 170, Akragas. See Agrigentum 314n38; 103–112, 149 Alberti, Leon Battista, 5, 298n12 Gymnasium of Ptolemy, 60, 65, 84 Albertolli, Giacomo, 35 Hephaisteion (‘Theseion’), 10, 15, 16, 51, 53, 59, 60, 65, 84, 85, 148, 158, Albertolli, Giocondo, 35 159, 313n18, 314n38, 54, 85, 154–155, 160–161 Alexander the Great, age of, 49 Horologion of Andronicus Cyrrhestes (Tower of the Winds), 10, 44, anathyrosis, 148, 324n154; 150–151 57, 65, 84, 123; 45, 128–129 Andronicus Cyrrhestes, Horologion of. See Athens Monument of Eumenes II (Agrippa), 90, 320n56 L’antiquit´eexpliqu´ee et repr´esent´ee en figures. See Montfaucon, Bernard Monument of Philopappos, 307n58; 29 de Odeion of Herodes Atticus (for his wife Regilla), 60, 67, 84, 108, 123 The Antiquities of Athens, 13, 20, 45, 88, 94, 106, 111, 167, 302n81, 304n10, Odeion of Pericles, 123 324n173 Parthenon (Temple of Athena); 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 43, proposals for, 13, 300n57 44, 45, 50, 51, 58, 60, 66, 67, 70, 73, 84, 87, 88, 89, 94, 96, 97, 98, 99, See also Stuart, James and Revett, Nicholas 101, 141, 148, 157, 158, 159, 163, 165, 166, 167, 168, 170, 297n4, 298n14, Antoniani, Pietro, 29 22, 299n34, 301n80, 302n81, 307n58, 314n38, 320n37, 324n173; 4, Archidamos, cave of, near Mount Hymettus. See Vari 10–11, 14, 31, 47–49, 95–101, 152–153, 156–164, 166 Argos, 51, 71, 72, 73, 74, 77, 78, 79, 84, 318n9 Pnyx, 67, 84, 108, 123; 116 Acropolis, 125, 323n135 Propylaia, 65, 66, 84, 88, 89, 90, 92, 94, 141, 89–94 339 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-88163-0 - Lord Elgin and Ancient Greek Architecture: The Elgin Drawings at the British Museum Luciana Gallo Index More information 340 Index Athens (cont.) and William Richard Hamilton, private secretary, 29, 42, 43, Temple of Aglauros, 67, 90, 94 70 Temple of Athena Nike, 51, 158, 167; 155–156 in Athens, 61 Temple of Zeus Olympios, 84 in the Morea, 73, 74 Theatre of Dionysos, 60, 65, 84, 108, 123; 115 on artists, 154 Thermae of Orestes, 84 Buckingham, George Villiers, 1st Duke of, 8 Burke, Edmund, 49 Baalbek, Wood and Dawkins on, 23 Babin, Jacques-Paul, 9, 299n40 Calmuk. See Ivanovitch, Feodor Bacchus, Theatre of. See Athens, Theatre of Dionysos; see also Odeion Camuccini, Vincenzo, 40, 310n105 of Herodes Atticus Candia. See Crete Balestra, Vincenzo, 19, 22, 32, 34, 35, 37, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 50, 52, 58, 59, Canova, Antonio, 83, 168 60, 61, 62, 65, 66, 67, 70, 80, 105, 125, 148, 169, 309n84, 310n92, 97, Carlyle, Joseph Dacre, 22 311n111, 116, 313n14; 36–37, 41, 62–64, 69, 95, 116 Carrey, Jacques, 9, 299n35; 10–11, 156–159 Barbie´ du Bocage, Jean-Denis, 96, 303n7, 324n173 Carstens, Jakob Asmus, 30 Barres, Antoine des, 9 Catania (Sicily), 24, 33, 59, 65, 85, 86, 87, 94, 111, 125, 170 Barthelemy,´ Jean-Jacques, 70, 301n76 Caulfield, James, first earl of Charlemont, 12, 300n55 Bassae, Temple of Apollo Epicurius, 73 Cave of Pan. See Athens Becker, Philipp Jakob, 30 Caylus, Anne-Claude-Philippe de Tubieres,` comte de, 14 Bedford, Francis, 89, 317n98; 146 Ceres Belon, Pierre, 6 ‘Secret Temple of’. See Eleusis, Telesterion Bellori, Giovanni Pietro, 8 ‘Temple of’. See Eleusis, Greater Propylaia Benefial, Marco, 12 Chambers, William, 49 Beotia, 71 Chandler, Richard, 13, 90, 94, 102, 107, 108, 140, 170, 306n46, 317n98, Bibliotheque` du Roi (later Bibliotheque` National, Paris), 158, 320n52, 56 299n35 Cheronea, 71 Biscari, Giovan Francesco Paterno` Castello, prince of, 24 Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie-Gabriel-August-Florent, comte de, 14, 15, 16, Biscari, Ignazio Paterno` Castello, prince of, 24, 33, 34, 306n44; 34 20, 44, 51, 158, 302n82, 320n37; 15 Blouet, Abel, 112, 117, 122, 170 Ciriaco di Filippo de’ Pizzicolli di Ancona, 4, 297n9, 298n10; 4 Borra, Giovan Battista (‘Torquilino’), 13, 23 Clarke, Edward Daniel, 21, 30, 55, 101, 107, 159, 313nn3, 23, 322n101 Bouverie, John, 13 Cockerell, Charles Robert, 97, 98, 106, 163, 166, 322n91; 163 Bracciolini, Gian Francesco Poggio, 4 Colbert, Jean-Baptiste, 7, 8 Brettingham, Matthew, the younger, 12 Constantinople (Instanbul), 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 14, 15, 22, 23, 43, 44, 59, 61, British Museum (London), 14 62, 65, 70, 71, 73 casts at, 314n38 Cordemoy, Jean-Louis, abbede,´ 154 Elgin Drawings at, 37, 44, 51–52, 55, 69, 83–85, 87–88, 89, 90, 101, 103, Corinth, 5, 50, 51, 71, 72, 74, 77, 78, 79, 83, 84 106, 107, 108, 111, 123, 319n20 Amphitheatre, 72, 83; 75 sculptures at, 21, 302n86, 307n58, 320n37 Doric temple at, 72 Broomhall, 18, 21, 41, 61, 62, 65, 170, 307n58 Roman thermae, 74 Bruce, Thomas, seven earl of Elgin and eleventh earl of Kincardine Temple of Apollo, 111, 125, 141; 117, 141–143 and artistic programme, 18–22 Cozens, John Robert, 27 and artists’ salaries, 42 Crete, 51 and artists’ terms of engagement, 43 attribution of views of, 52–57; 56–57 and attempt to appoint British artists, 22–23 shipwreck of Cambrian off, 29 and Balestra, 40, 41, 42, 61, 62, 65 Cythera, 81 and British Embassy Palace, 61–62 and Broomhall, 61–65 Dallam, Master Thomas, 6 and cast production, 20 Dalton, Richard, 12, 300n55 and Choiseul-Gouffier, 14, 16 Daniell, William, 22 and diplomatic appointment in Constantinople, 18 D’Anna, Alessandro, 55 and final depart from Greece, 57, 81, 83 David, Jacques-Louis, 35 and Harrison, 18–20, 61 Dawkins, James. See Wood, Robert and Philip Hunt, 71 Day, Alexander, 30 and Ittar, 37, 41, 73, 75, 76, 79, 81–82, 85, 86 De architectura. See Vitruvius, Marcus Pollio and Ivanovitch, 43 Della Gatta, Saverio, 55 and Le Roy, 45 Delos, 298n22 and Lord Ainslie, 23, 24 Delphi, 71 and Lusieri, 21, 22, 24, 25, 41, 43, 44, 60, 71 Demosthenes, Lantern of. See Athens, Choragic Monument of and the Morea expedition, 70–71, 73 Lysicrathes and Parthenon sculpture, 21–22, 50 Description of Greece (Periegesis Hellados). See Pausanias and Sir William Hamilton, 22, 24, 29 Desgodets, Antoine Babuty, 8, 13, 140 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-88163-0 - Lord Elgin and Ancient Greek Architecture: The Elgin Drawings at the British Museum Luciana Gallo Index More information Index 341 Desprez, Jean-Louis, 33 Girtin, Thomas, 22 Dionysos, Theatre of. See Athens; see also Odeion of Herodes Atticus Ghiselin de Busbecq, Ogier, 6 Dionysos and Tyrrhenian pirates (represented on frieze of Monument Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 32, 306n53, 307n68 of Lysicrates, Athens), 167 Gore, Charles, 27 Dodwell, Edward, 23, 71, 101 Goupy, Louis, 12 Dolgorouki, Prince, 43 Graeco-Roman debate, 12, 49 Donaldson, Thomas Leverton, 65, 84, 85, 87, 88, 106, 111, 112, 117, 119, Grand Tour/Grand Tourists, 9, 12, 13, 19, 24, 26, 55, 71 120, 122, 170; 105–107, 118, 125 Gravier d’Ortieres,` Laurent, 298n22 Ducros, Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe, 26 Greece early exploration of, 3–11 Eastcourt, Giles, 9, 299n41 Turkish conquest, 5 Edict of Milan, 3 see also specific sites and edifices Egypt, 7, 16, 18, 19, 20, 43, 61, 70, 73, 169 Greek Revival, 13, 18, 22, 49, 170 Eleusis, 21, 51, 73, 74, 76, 79, 84, 125, 138, 317n98; 139 Gymnasium of Ptolemy. See Athens Greater Propylaia (‘Temple of Ceres’), 147 Lesser Propylaia (‘Inner Vestibule’), 102, 140; 146 Hackert, Jakob Philip, 25, 29, 30, 33, 306nn50, 53, 56, 57 Telesterion (‘Secret Temple of Ceres’), 73, 84, 125, 140; 144–145, Hamilton Campbell, Mary, Lady Ruthven, 43, 307n58 148 Hamilton, Gavin, 12, 300n58 Elgin Drawings, 32, 51, 85, 87, 88, 90, 92, 94, 97, 99, 106, 108, 123, 143, 157, Hamilton Nisbet of Dirleton, Mary, 61, 67, 69, 303n3 169, 170 Hamilton, sir William, 14, 22, 24, 29, 30, 306nn, 55, 57 Assessment by Donaldson, 111–122 Campi Phlegraei, 306n50 Assessment by Kinnard, 106–111 Hamilton, William Richard, 29, 30, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 58, 59, 70, 73, 78, British Museum’s acquisition, 51–52 79, 85, 154, 306n58 Dispatch from Athens, 83 Harrison, Thomas, 18, 19, 20, 61, 62 Elgin Marbles (Parthenon Marbles), 20, 50, 51, 84, 88, 170, 307n58 Hart, Emma, Lady Hamilton, 30, 306n53 Elgin Papers, 21, 50, 74, 84, 303n7 Haye,Jeandela,7 Elgin, seven earl of, and eleventh earl of Kincardine, see Bruce, Hephaisteion (‘Theseion’).
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