FASCINATION WITH RUINS USING THE WORK OF JOHN SOANE

Discuss the fascination with ruins using the work of John Soane

Discuss the fascination with ruins using the work of John Soane

Bank of England, an architectural masterpiece of Sir John Soane's, imagine how the devastation future. Soane commissioned from the top of this bird in terms of artist Joseph Gandy in 1830. This exhibition is the first to explore the "cult of collapse", the phenomenon of the 18 th and early 19 th century in Europe. Apparently the ruins were built as "nonsense" in the landscaped gardens, while the artists imagined London would appear as the ruined city after the collapse of the British Empire. In Rome, the interiors have been painted as an illusion of the ruins, and in Paris, the great chef Antoine Karem blancmanges served as the Roman ruins.

John Soane represents the culmination of this passion. In the garden of his Museum Inn Fields ? 13 Lincoln 'Monk's Yard, mock ruin assembled from fragments of the medieval Palace of Westminster. At his country house, Pitzhanger Manor in Ealing, he pretended that the layout of a classical Roman temple was a ruin, he found the bottom of the garden. He celebrated the completion of his masterpiece, the Bank of England, by issuing a series of amazing views of the structure, if the death. He even wrote a story, crude Tips to stories from my house, in which he presented an archaeologist of the age verification fragments from his house: they were remnants of the monastery, a Roman temple, the magician's lair, or a house from the persecution of the artist?

The most famous work was the appearance of Soane Bank of England, which he developed when he became a surveyor and architect of the institution. Unfortunately, most of his work ...