In July 1798, General Bonaparte invaded Egypt with an army of soldiers, engineers and scholars. One month later, Admiral Nelson destroyed the French fleet in the Battle of the Nile. Situated between Europe and India, Egypt now became the Middle East for European empires. Since then, images of Egyptian landscapes and monuments have circulated as […]
Eds: Mari Lending, Eirik Arff Gulseth Bøhn and Tim Anstey Oslo: Pax, 2018 Since Napoleon invaded Egypt with an army of soldiers and scholars in 1798, images of Egyptian landscapes and monuments have circulated as fantasy and reality in the West. Soon after the Western […]
The fifth project workshop of the PriArc project took place at the Architecture museum in Oslo 21-22 June 2018. The first day was dedicated to celebrating the end of The Printed and the Built – one of PriArc’s sibling projects – while the second day was a PriArc workshop with papers from junior and senior […]
The first Byvanck style symposium, held in May 2017, looked at different ways of defining styles of the past, and offered new ways of thinking about style formation; and the revival of Egyptian, Persian or Greco-Roman styles. This second instalment, organised together with the HERA project ‘Printing the Past. Architecture, Print Culture, and Uses of […]
The edited collection The Printed and the Built, edited by Mari Hvattum and Anne Hultzsch, explores the intricate relationship between architecture and printed media in the nineteenth century. Among the authors are six PriArc scholars, making the collection a significant PriArc output. We welcome everyone to the book launch at the EAHN conference in Tallin, Saturday […]
The PriArc project is well representated at the European Architectural History Network’s conference 2018 in Tallin. No less than three of PriArc’s principle investigators host conference sessions: PriArc’s Barbara Penner leads the roundtable “The foundations of architectural research” together with Professor Charles Rice from Sidney University of Technology; Maarten Delbeke hosts the session “The persistence […]
We invite contributions for a study day intending to examine how and why, over the course of the long 19th century, a variety of actors ranging from tourists and writers to artists and historians, explored the nascent architectural and artistic patrimony of Belgium. The very notion of patrimony was established in this period, promoted by […]
The book Plaster Monuments. Architecture and the Power of Reproduction, written by Mari Lending and published by Princeton University Press, was launched in the gallery overlooking the Cast Courts at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London on January 16. The book was presented by Antonia Boström, Keeper of the Sculpture, Ceramics, Metalwork and Glass […]
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, an influx of images of the landscapes, inhabitants and monuments of Egypt saturated European culture on an unprecedented scale. Soon, heavy physical parts of that landscape fabric were relocated to Western centers, while this transfer, in turn, was accompanied by a flood of weightless images: newspaper reports, letters, […]
We are taught to believe in originals. In art and architecture originals vouch for authenticity, value, and truth, calling for protection and preservation. The nineteenth century, however, looked at it differently. Full-scale plaster casts of architecture from across time and place circulated throughout Europe and America and were proudly displayed in leading museums. This book, […]
