The Architecture of Percier and Fontaine and the Struggle for Sovereignty in Revolutionary France

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4724-8016-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 253 mm x 182 mm, Gewicht: 606 g

As the official architects of Napoleon, Charles Percier (1764–1838) and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1762–1853) designed interiors that responded to the radical ideologies and collective forms of destruction that took place during the French Revolution. The architects visualized new forms of imperial sovereignty by inverting the symbols of monarchy and revolution, constructing meeting rooms resembling military encampments and gilded thrones that replaced the Bourbon lily with Napoleonic bees. Yet in the wake of political struggle, each foundation stone that the architects laid for the new imperial regime was accompanied by an awareness of the contingent nature of sovereign power. Contributing fresh perspectives on the architecture, decorative arts, and visual culture of revolutionary France, this book explores how Percier and Fontaine’s desire to build structures of permanence and their inadvertent reliance upon temporary architectural forms shaped a new awareness of time, memory, and modern political identity in France.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moon, Iris

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Revolutionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Finding Revolutionary Architecture in the Decorative Arts

- Visionary Friendship at the End of the Ancien Régime

Clean Sheets and Water Magic

Architects in Training

Roman Fever

Solo Missions

An Etruscan Friendship

- Propulsion and Residue: Constructing the Revolutionary Interior

Rome à Rebours

Staging Antiquity and Austerity

Revolutionary Rearrangements

Seek, Record, Destroy

The Eternal Return of Luxury

- The Recueil de décorations intérieures: Furnishing a New Order

Paper Studios

Furnishing Techniques

Strategies of Redaction

Consuming Desires

Writing Against Fashion

Between the Lines

Empire Styles

- The Platinum Cabinet: Luxury in Times of Uncertainty

Pastoral Pastimes

Incorruptible Precision

Fast Times in Consulate Paris

Haunting Season

- Tent and Throne: Architecture in a State of Emergency

Après Coup

Fantasies of the Ideal Villa

A Permanent Work in Progress

Little Pleasures

The Moving Bivouac

Political Theology

Divorcing the Past

Coda: Revolutionary Atonement

Über Autor(innen)

Iris Moon is a visiting assistant professor in the School of Architecture at Pratt Institute, New York. She specializes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European art, architecture, and the decorative arts.