The rise of the illustrated printed architectural treatise in the mid-sixteenth century revolutionized architecture, providing architects throughout Europe with easily reproducible architectural models. It is often asserted that printing also led to the codification of architectural details and the five Orders, ending the mutable process of transmission through drawings and sketchbooks. Through studying the dialogue between sixteenth-century architectural drawings, treatises, and often overlooked, small individual prints of column bases, capitals, and cornices, this lecture propose that rather than ending the fluid sketchbook process of exchange and invention, the individual single-leaf architectural print not only emerged from a sketchbook tradition and but also played an active role in continuing that tradition. Like the drawings they were derived from such as the North Italian Album and the Codex Coner in the collection of the Soane Museum, these prints of architectural details were volatile objects of transmission that promoted ornamental variety that continued to be transformed through their use and replication. They ran counter to the printed architectural treatise and encouraged what the Renaissance theorist Sebastiano Serlio derided as “licentious” architecture. By revealing this dynamic, previously unstudied side of sixteenth-century architectural print culture, this lecture presents Renaissance architecture in a new light, bringing it out of the shadows of the architectural Orders.
Starting September 2010, Mr. Waters is spending a year in Rome on a Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome - returning to New York for just one week in November. Earlier this year, he completed a stay in London as our Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation Traveling Fellowship recipient for 2009. Michael is a PhD Candidate and Erwin Panofsky Fellow at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. Before to coming to New York, he received a BFA in art history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a MA in architectural history from the University of Virginia. He is currently working on a dissertation on materials, materiality, and spolia in Italian Renaissance architecture in addition to an article and exhibition on sixteenth-century drawings and engravings of architectural details. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Society of Architectural Historians, and has presented papers at the Society’s annual meeting as well as that of the Renaissance Society of America.
The Soane Foundation is pleased to co-sponsor the following talks with the Royal Oak Foundation and other cooperating partners:
SYRIE MAUGHAM: STAGING THE GLAMOROUS INTERIOR
Talk by PAULINE METCALF, Historian and Author
Location: Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue (between 37th and 38th Street) - doors open 5:30pm
SPEED, STYLE AND THE ENGLISH COUNTRY HOUSE
Talk by CURT DICAMILLO, Historian and Exec. Dir. of National Trust for Scotland Foundation USA
Location: Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue (between 37th and 38th Street) - doors open 5:30pm
: Advance registration required. Please reserve through the Royal Oak Foundation online at www.royal-oak.org or by phone to Robert Dennis at 212-480-2889 ext. 201. Tickets: $30 members, $40 non-members.
The Soane Foundation is pleased to co-sponsor the following talks with
the Royal Oak Foundation and other cooperating partners:
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BELVOIR CASTLE: 1000 YEARS OF FAMILY, ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Talk by THE DUCHESS OF RUTLAND, Owner, Belvoir Castle
STRANGE GENIUS OF SIR JOHN SOANE
Talk by TIM KNOX, Director of Sir John Soane’s Museum, London
Location: The Richard H. Driehaus Museum, 50 East Erie Street. Formal business attire required.
Advance registration required: $40 members, $50 non-members. Seating is limited.
Co-sponsored with The Richard H. Driehaus Museum
: Advance registration required. Please reserve through the Royal Oak Foundation online at www.royal-oak.org or by phone to Robert Dennis at 212-480-2889 ext. 201. Tickets: $40 members, $50 non-members - please mention you are a supporter of the Soane Foundation to receive the member price. Seating is limited. |
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SOANE CHARTER MEMBERS RECEPTION A The Trustees and Tim Knox, Director of Sir John Soane's Museum are pleased to invite you to a reception for American supporters. There will be an opportunity to explore the Museum, which will be candle-lit for the occasion.
Location: Sir John Soane’s Museum, 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London
- chas@soanefoundation.com or at 212-223-2012 if you wish to attend.
A ROYAL RESIDENCE: KENSINGTON PALACE
Talk by LUCY WORSLEY, Curator of Historic Royal Palaces
Location: UCLA Faculty Center, 480 Charles E. Young Drive East
Advance registration required: $25 members, $35 non-members
SYRIE MAUGHAM: STAGING THE GLAMOROUS INTERIOR
Talk by PAULINE METCALF, Historian and Author
Location: Beverly Hills Women’s Club, 1700 Chevy Chase Drive
Advance registration required: $58 members, $68 non-members
: Advance registration required. Please reserve through the Royal Oak Foundation online at www.sffas.org or by phone to Robert Dennis at 212-480-2889 ext. 201. - please mention you are a supporter of the Soane Foundation to receive the member price.
A ROYAL RESIDENCE: KENSINGTON PALACE
Talk by LUCY WORSLEY, Curator of Historic Royal Palaces
Location: The Union League of Philadelphia, 140 South Broad Street - Business Attire Required
BELVOIR CASTLE: 1000 YEARS OF FAMILY, ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Talk by THE DUCHESS OF RUTLAND, Owner, Belvoir Castle
Location: The Union League of Philadelphia, 140 South Broad Street - Business Attire Required
‘MANDARIN ONLY IS THE MAN OF TASTE’: CHINOISERIE IN BRITAIN 1650-1820
Talk by DAVID BEEVERS, Keeper of the Royal Pavilion, Brighton
Location: The Union League of Philadelphia, 140 South Broad Street - Business Attire Required
SPEED, STYLE AND THE ENGLISH COUNTRY HOUSE
Talk by CURT DICAMILLO, Historian and Exec. Dir. of National Trust for Scotland Foundation USA
Location: The Union League of Philadelphia, 140 South Broad Street - Business Attire Required
: Advance registration required. Please reserve through the Royal Oak Foundation online at www.royal-oak.org or by phone to Robert Dennis at 212-480-2889 ext. 201. Tickets: $20 members and non-members.
A ROYAL RESIDENCE: KENSINGTON PALACE
Talk by LUCY WORSLEY, Curator of Historic Royal Palaces
Location: Metropolitan Club, 640 Sutter Street - Business Attire Required
Advance registration required: $30 members, $40 non-members
: Advance registration required. Please reserve through the Royal Oak Foundation online at www.royal-oak.org or by phone to Robert Dennis at 212-480-2889 ext. 201 - please mention you are a supporter of the Soane Foundation to receive the member price.
SAN FRANCISCO FALL ANTIQUES SHOW with the Special Exhibition: Chinoiserie
The Soane Foundation is pleased to serve as a Cultural Partner for a third year with the SFFAS.
Location: Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason Center
: Advance purchase of tickets required. Please call 415-989-9019 after September 7 or register online at www.sffas.org
SOANE CHARTER MEMBERS BREAKFAST A Please join BARBARA SALLICK, co-founder
of WATERWORKS, for a breakfast honoring TIM KNOX, Director of Sir John Soane’s Museum
Location: Waterworks, 235 Kansas Street
- ghurtado@waterworks.com or at 415-431-7160
STRANGE GENIUS OF SIR JOHN SOANE
Talk by TIM KNOX, Director of Sir John Soane’s Museum, London
Location: Metropolitan Club, 640 Sutter Street - Business Attire Required
$30 members, $40 non-members. Reservations can be made by returning the attached form or calling the Soane Foundation office at 212-223-2012. Tickets may also be reserved through the Royal Oak Foundation. |
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‘MANDARIN ONLY IS THE MAN OF TASTE’: CHINOISERIE IN BRITAIN 1650-1820
Presented as part of the Lecture Series, Chinoiserie Chic, at the San Francisco Fall Antiques Show (SFFAS)
Talk by DAVID BEEVERS, Keeper of the Royal Pavilion, Brighton
Location: Festival Pavilion of Fort Mason Center
: $22 members only (includes discount admission to the SFFAS); To Register, please call 415-989-9019 after September 7 or register online at www.sffas.org
PALLADIO AND HIS LEGACY: A TRANSATLANTIC JOURNEY
The Royal Institute of British Architects Trust and the National Building Museum are pleased to present this second showing of the exhibition here in the United States.
- by invitation only - please call the Soane Foundation if you would like to potentially attend the opening.
For more exhibition details, please go the National Building Museum web site
or the full address is > www.nbm.org/exhibitions-collections/exhibitions/palladio-and-his-legacy.html
Palladio and His Legacy offers a rare opportunity to see some of the most important drawings in the world of architecture—thirty-one, 16th-century works from the hand of the Italian Renaissance master Andrea Palladio. These illustrations link the splendor of ancient Rome to the power and wealth of the Venetian Republic and, ultimately, to the symbols of our American democracy.
Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation is pleased to partner with the RIBA Trust on this presentation of Palladio and His Legacy in the United States.
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ARCHITECTURAL RECORD – posted 16 April 2010
“Palladio and His Legacy: A Transatlantic Journey” – interview by Suzanne Stephens and William Hanley |
A CLASSICAL HOUSE IS STILL A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE
Talk by Gil Schafer III, AIA
Location: National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1785 Massachusetts Ave., NW, 2nd Floor - corner of 18th Street
SPEED, STYLE AND THE ENGLISH COUNTRY HOUSE
Talk by CURT DICAMILLO, Historian and Exec. Dir. of National Trust for Scotland Foundation USA
Location: National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1785 Massachusetts Ave., NW, 2nd Floor - corner of 18th Street
A FAMILY AFFAIR: TREASURES FROM THE ROTHCHILD COLLECTION AT
WADDESDON MANOR
Talk by DR. ULRICH LEBEN
Location: National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1785 Massachusetts Ave., NW, 2nd Floor - corner of 18th Street
: Advance registration required. Please reserve through the Royal Oak Foundation online at www.royal-oak.org or by phone to Robert Dennis at 212-480-2889 ext. 201. Tickets: $25 members, $35 non-members
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