Phenomenologies of the City by Henriette Steiner & Maximilian Sternberg

Author:Henriette Steiner & Maximilian Sternberg
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Published: 2015-04-27T16:00:00+00:00

7.9 The Oxford Almanack, 1703. The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford: G.A. Oxon A. 88a 1703 Ox Alm.

7.10 University of Virginia, The Rotunda. Photo: Robert Ferguson.

NOTES

1 Trans. by Thomas Taylor (New York: Pantheon, 1944), pp. 220–21.

2 Characteristicks, &c., 2 vols, ([London], 1711), II, pp. 393–4.

3 Peter Carl first called it this within my hearing. See Terry Comito, The Idea of the Garden in the Renaissance (Hassocks: Harvester Press, 1979), Chapter V; Erwin Goodenough, Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period, abridged edn., ed. by Jacob Neusner (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988), pp. 134–47. Goodenough identifies Plutarch’s Isis and Osiris, Sallust’s On the Gods and the Universe, and Julian’s Oration on the Mother of the Gods as the most pertinent classical texts. Cf. Gerhart Ladner, ‘Vegetation Symbolism and the Concept of Renaissance’, in De Artibus Opuscula XL: Essays in Honor of Erwin Panofsky (New York: New York University Press, 1961), pp. 303–22; Karl Lehmann, ‘The Dome of Heaven’, Art Bulletin, 27 (1945), pp. 1–27.

4 ‘The Age of the World Picture’, in The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays, trans. by William Lovitt (New York: Harper & Row, 1977), p. 130.

5 Nicholas Purcell, ‘Town in Country and Country in Town’, in Ancient Roman Villa Gardens, ed. by Elisabeth Blair MacDougall (Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 1987), pp. 185–203.

6 The Four Books of Architecture 2.12, trans. by Isaac Ware (London, 1738; repr. New York: Dover, 1965), p. 47. Cf. Alberti, De re aedificatoria 1.9. It goes back at least to Plato: Laws 779a–b.

7 ‘Sermon 11 of the Resurrection’, Easter 1616: Andrewes, XCVI Sermons (London, 1629), pp. 501–2.

8 Cf. Pausanias 6.24.7; Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.735; Lucian, De Dea Syria; Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.21.

9 Will of Matthew Wren, 1665, Cambridge, Pembroke College MS. K ζ. Transcription by Jayne Ringrose, 1993, pp. 2, 4–6.

10 A.V. Grimstone, Building Pembroke Chapel (Cambridge: Pembroke College, 2009).

11 Cf. Kerry Downes, The Architecture of Wren (New York: Universe, 1982), pp. 31–2.

12 Translation from Crashaw’s Latin by P.S. Bowman, adapted: The Complete Poetry of Richard Crashaw, ed. by G. W. Williams (New York: Norton, 1974), p. 442.

13 An early comprehensive publication is Giovanni Ciampini, De Sacris Ædificiis a Constantino Magno Constructis (Rome, 1693).

14 Wren owned Antonio Bosio, Roma sotterranea (Rome, 1632); his colleague Robert Hooke had the expanded Latin edition by Paolo Aringhi (Rome, 1651; Paris, 1659).

15 Marvell (attrib., 1676), quoted in OED, s.v. heliotrope.

16 Paradin, Devises Heroïques (Lyons, 1557; facs. Menston, Yorkshire, 1971), pp. 41, 42.

17 [Henry Hawkins], Partheneia Sacra ([Paris], 1633), pp. 48–9.

18 John Evelyn, Silva, or, a Discourse of Forest-Trees (1662; 6e York, 1776), pp. 610–18.

19 Evelyn, pp. 604–6.

20 Evelyn, p. 608.

21 Christopher Wren, ‘Tract II’, in Parentalia, ed. by Christopher Wren Jr. (London, 1750; facs. Farnborough: Gregg Press, 1965), p. 355.

22 Cf. Hans-Georg Gadamer’s understanding of symbol: Truth and Method, 2nd rev. ed. (New York: Crossroad, 1989), pp. 72–81; and Paul Ricoeur’s: The Conflict of Interpretations (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1974) (from which the title of this section derives), pp. 287–8.

23 This account follows Paul von Naredi-Rainer, Salomos Tempel und das Abendland (Cologne: Dumont, 1994), pp.

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