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Item Number: 117084
Title: Public Pantheons in Revolutionary Europe : Comparing Cultures of Remembrance, c. 1790-1840
Author: Bouwers, Eveline G
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780230294715
Description: Bastinstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 25cm., hardcover, 344pp., 20 b&w illus. Summary: The story of how the concept of a pantheon, a building honouring great individuals, spread across Revolutionary Europe and interacted with socio-political and cultural changes. Analysing the canon and iconography of each pantheon, Bouwers shows how the commemoration of war and celebration of nationhood gave way to the protection of elite interests. Contents: Introduction: The Journey of the European Pantheonic Imagination ; Pantheon: the History of a Concept on the Move ; Competition in the Parliamentary Pantheon in London ; The Eclipse of Exemplarity: the Imperial Pantheon in Paris ; A Papal Pantheon? Canova's 'illustrious Italians' in Rome ; 'National education' in a Royal Pantheon in Regensburg ; Conclusions: Public Pantheons: a European History?. (War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850)
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