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British architectural and artistic responses<\/h2>\n
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Simeon Monument in Butter Market, Reading, Sir John Soane 1804. Photo Amy C. Smith<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

During his stay in Italy Winckelmann visited the Greek temples in Paestum (Poseidonia) and included an enthusiastic account of them in his 1762 Observations on the Architecture of the Ancients. At the same time the architects Nicholas Revett and James \u2018Athenian\u2019 Stuart\u2014who had met in Italy and travelled together to Greece\u2014began to publish their volumes documenting the ruins of Athens. These and other volumes with architectural illustrations were enthusiastically welcomed by scholars and fuelled the Greek revival in architecture.<\/p>\n

Charles Robert Cockerell (1788\u20131863), another English traveller, excavator and architect, encouraged the British Museum to purchase the interior marble frieze of the Temple of Apollo at Bassai, which he had discovered in 1811. Casts of these marbles decorate the Grand Staircase of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, which he designed between 1841 and 1845.<\/p>\n

Sir John Soane (1753\u20131827), son of a Reading bricklayer, took the Grand Tour while studying at the Royal Academy, where he was later appointed Professor of Architecture. He collected many genuine antiquities and casts of ancient architectural and sculptural works, which informed both his practice and his teaching. He adapted ancient styles to neoclassical works such as Reading\u2019s Simeon Monument (1804), the crowning element of which recalls Athens\u2019 Monument of Lysikrates. The banker Edward Simeon commissioned Soane to erect this obelisk supporting \u2013 three lanterns to illuminate Reading\u2019s Market Square.<\/p>\n

The upper story of Oxford\u2019s Radcliffe Observatory, designed by Henry Keene in 1772 and completed by James Wyatt in 1794,25 copies Athens\u2019 octagonal Tower of the Winds, down to its sculptures of the personified winds, which were well known from Stuart\u2019s drawings. This Grade I-listed, neoclassical building incorporates many other classicising features: an arcade, a range of columnar styles, some pediments and even reliefs that emulate Wedgwood\u2019s jasperware friezes.<\/p>\n

At the Royal Academy and other art schools, students like Minnie Jane Hardman, nee\u0301 Shubrook (1862 \u2013 1952), used plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculptures as drawing models. While \u2018premium\u2019 medals were awarded for such drawings after casts, and gold medals for history paintings, silver medals were given for copying oil paintings or drawing figures from life. Hardman received the second-place silver medal for her drawing of a woman, perhaps herself, at the Royal Academy in 1884.<\/p>\n

Both the canon of ancient art and the number of plaster casts of Greek original sculptures continued to grow after Winckelmann, as new master works were discovered. Winckelmann had realised that some of the statues he loved in Rome were but copies of the original Greek masterpieces, and yearned to travel to Greece in search of originals. His untimely death in 1768 came as he was planning a journey to Olympia where, in 1877, German excavators were to find Praxiteles\u2019 Hermes.<\/p>\n

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\u2192 IV. Henning\u2019s architectural sculpture in miniature<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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