The romance of ruins : the search for ancient Ionia 1764 / edited by Ian Jenkins and Louise Stewart ; catalogue by Celeste Farge.
Published / Created:
London : Sir John Soane's Museum, in collaboration with The British Museum, 2021.
Physical Description:
240 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 23 x 26 cm
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Exhibition held March 3-May 31, 2021 at Sir John Soane's Museum, London, UK .
Contents:
Directors' foreword -- This wonderful day : in search of ancient Ionia / Ian Jenkins -- The eye of Asia: portrait of Smyrna as a world city / Philip Mansel -- Quorum Pars magna fui: the role of William Pars / Kim Sloan -- The Society of Dilettanti and the study of Greek antiquity / Jason M. Kelly -- Etiam periere ruinae: Chandler, the troad and Troy / J. Lesley Fitton -- Voyaging without romanticism: travels with Richard Chandler and the trials and tribulations of the Ionian expedition -- Hunting inscriptions on the Ionian mission: Richard Chandler and the development of Greek epigraphy / Robert K. Pitt -- A new species of human beings: enlightened encounters with the Anatolian 'other' in the eighteenth century / Tuğba Tanyeri-Erdemir -- Catalogue. Drawings by William Pars associated with the Ionian mission in the collection of the British Museum / Celeste Farge.