Rome, Athens, and Luxor, Egypt, in mid-1800s Newport
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Rome, Athens, and Luxor, Egypt, in mid-1800s Newport


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Richard Morris Hunt visited Rome, Athens, and Luxor: Egyptian obelisks, and sphinxes. Classical Greek columns. Roman triumphal arches. Sounds like sites on a trip around the Mediterranean. But all these things were built in Newport, Rhode Island, in the mid-1800s. And they can still be seen today. A key figure in this Revival architecture was Richard Morris Hunt, the first American to attend the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. While working in Europe, he traveled to Egypt, Greece, and Rome. He sketched and explored the buildings of antiquity and of the Renaissance. And he learned the current trend of blending various influences into a new style of architecture called Neo-Grec. Hunt was also influenced by the new scientific art form that was all the rage in mid-century Paris: Photography. Hidden in Hunt's houses, gateways, and statue pedestals are silent stories about perspective, symbolism, and special numbers. Modern visitors to Newport are in awe of the mansions Richard Morris Hunt designed along Bellevue Avenue. But Hunt was in awe of one special building in Newport: the Stone Tower in Touro Park. He didn't know built it. But he left us a trail of clues about what he felt the building originally looked like.
About the Author: James Alan Egan was a professional photographer in Providence, Rhode Island for 40 years. He is now the curator of the Newport Tower Museum at 152 Mill Street, just fifty steps northeast of the Tower. This is his eighteenth book on the Stone Tower and how people of old, like Richard Morris Hunt, were fascinated by it.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781534683167
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 280 mm
  • No of Pages: 386
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: With clues that Revivalist Richard Morris Hunt thought the Stone Tower in Touro Park was a classically proportioned Vitruvian circular temple.
  • Width: 216 mm
  • ISBN-10: 153468316X
  • Publisher Date: 13 Jun 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 942 gr


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