Architecture, Death and Nationhood - Monumental Cemeteries of Nineteenth-Century Italy

As the first survey of Italy's monumental cemeteries, the book explores the relationship between architecture and politics, or how architecture is formed by political forces.

Sommario

Introduction, 1. A Radical Reform of Burial Practices, 1740-1804, 2. The Monumental Cemetery as a New Architectural Type, 3. Death and Risorgimento: The Politics of Italian Funerary Architecture, 4. Style, Language and Meaning, Conclusion, Appendix: Catalogue

Info autore

Hannah Malone is a historian of architecture and modern Italy. After a doctorate at St John’s College Cambridge, she held a fellowship at the British School at Rome and studied fascist military cemeteries. As a Lumley Junior Research Fellow at Magdalene College Cambridge, she is currently working on the architect Marcello Piacentini.

Riassunto

As the first survey of Italy’s monumental cemeteries, the book explores the relationship between architecture and politics, or how architecture is formed by political forces.

Testo aggiuntivo

"Informatively and comprehensively illustrated, impeccably referenced and written with wise and wide-ranging insights, this fascinating tome is a very important contribution to architectural, political and social history."James Stevens Curl, Times Higher Education, July 2017

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Hannah Malone, Hannah (Freie Universitat Berlin Malone
• Con la collaborazione di: Hannah Malone (Editore), Kevin Moloney (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781138392694
• ISBN: 978-1-138-39269-4
• Pagine: 280
• Serie: Ashgate Studies in Architecture
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Architettura; Architecture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, RELIGION / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, ARCHITECTURE / Criticism, Religion: general, Social and cultural history, History of Architecture, Human Geography, Theory of architecture