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Pantheons : transformations of a monumental idea / edited by Richard Wrigley and Matthew Craske.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Subject/object--new studies in sculpturePublisher: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: xx, 251 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0754608085
  • 9780754608080
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 731.76 22
LOC classification:
  • CC175 .P36 2004
Contents:
1. From the pantheon of the gods to the Pantheon of Rome / Edmund Thomas -- 2. From the pantheon of artists to the pantheon of illustrious men : Raphael's tomb and its legacy / Susanna Pasquali -- 3. Westminster Abbey 1720-70 : a public pantheon built upon private interest / Matthew Craske -- 4. The British military pantheon in St. Paul's Cathedral : the state, cultural patriotism, and the politics of national monuments, c. 1790-1820 / Holger Hoock -- 5. Popular and imaginary pantheons in early nineteenth-century England / Alison Yarrington -- 6. Pantheons in eighteenth-century France : temple, museum, pyramid / Dominique Poulot -- 7. Madame Tussaud's as a popular pantheon / Uta Kornmeier -- 8. Tales from the crypt/a Surrealist pantheon / Simon Baker -- 9. 'The granite of the ancient North' : race, nation and empire at Cecil Rhodes's mountain mausoleum and Rhodes House, Oxford / Donal Lowry -- 10. Rise and fall of the Soviet pantheon / Brandon Taylor.
Review: "This collection of essays is the first to trace the transformation of the monumental idea of a pantheon from its origins in Greek and Roman antiquity to its later appearance as a means of commemorating and enshrining the ideals of national identity and statehood. Illuminating the emergence of the pantheon in a range of different cultures and periods by exploring its different manifestations and implementations, the essays open up new historical perspectives on the formation of national and civic identities."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. From the pantheon of the gods to the Pantheon of Rome / Edmund Thomas -- 2. From the pantheon of artists to the pantheon of illustrious men : Raphael's tomb and its legacy / Susanna Pasquali -- 3. Westminster Abbey 1720-70 : a public pantheon built upon private interest / Matthew Craske -- 4. The British military pantheon in St. Paul's Cathedral : the state, cultural patriotism, and the politics of national monuments, c. 1790-1820 / Holger Hoock -- 5. Popular and imaginary pantheons in early nineteenth-century England / Alison Yarrington -- 6. Pantheons in eighteenth-century France : temple, museum, pyramid / Dominique Poulot -- 7. Madame Tussaud's as a popular pantheon / Uta Kornmeier -- 8. Tales from the crypt/a Surrealist pantheon / Simon Baker -- 9. 'The granite of the ancient North' : race, nation and empire at Cecil Rhodes's mountain mausoleum and Rhodes House, Oxford / Donal Lowry -- 10. Rise and fall of the Soviet pantheon / Brandon Taylor.

"This collection of essays is the first to trace the transformation of the monumental idea of a pantheon from its origins in Greek and Roman antiquity to its later appearance as a means of commemorating and enshrining the ideals of national identity and statehood. Illuminating the emergence of the pantheon in a range of different cultures and periods by exploring its different manifestations and implementations, the essays open up new historical perspectives on the formation of national and civic identities."--BOOK JACKET.

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