Tributes to Pierre du Prey

Architecture and the Classical Tradition, from Pliny to Posterity

Edited by Matthew M Reeve

Book cover: Tributes to Pierre du Prey

Extent: 288 pages

Publisher: Harvey Miller

Subjects: Architecture, Art & Art History

Series: Tributes

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(February 2015)

ISBN: 9781909400122

Price: $150.00

In stock

This volume is warmly dedicated to Pierre de la Ruffiniere du Prey. It comprises sixteen essays by friends, colleagues, and students and a postlude by our dedicatee.


Matthew M Reeve, Introduction Mark Wilson Jones, The Origins of the Orders: Unity in Multiplicity Guy Metraux, York University, Some Other Literary Villas of Roman Antiquity besides Pliny's Judson Emerick, John Soane's Mistake: Rereading the Tempietto del Clitunno John Osborne, The Church of San Zeno at Bardolino, the "Carolingian Renaissance," and the Sources for Simulated Architecture in 'Court School' Manuscripts Eric Fernie, Romanesque Historiography and the Classical Tradition John Beldon Scott, Uses of the Past: Charles V's Roman Triumph and its Legacy Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Queen's University, Classicism in a Rococo World: Steadfastness and Compromise in Late Colonial South America Sally Hickson, Girolamo Porro: Engraver and Publisher in Venice Una D'Elia, Acanthus Leaves and Ostrich Feathers: Claude Perrault, Tradition and Innovation in Architectural Language Janina Knight, Queen's University, Two drawings by Giovanni Battista Montano in the Canadian Centre for Architecture John Pinto, Ruins and Restitution: Eighteenth-Century Architects and Antiquity in the Bay of Naples Matthew M. Reeve, 'A Gothic Vatican of Greece and Rome': Horace Walpole, Strawberry Hill, and the Narratives of Gothic Peter Coffman, The Gibbsian Tradition in Nova Scotia Sebastian Schutze, The Stadio dei Marmi in Rome: Inventing a Classical Stage for the Colossal Heroes of Fascist Italy Phyllis Lambert, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Mies Klassizismus: Some Notes, Postlude: Pierre Du Prey, Reflections on Mentors

  • Edited by Matthew M Reeve