Stuart and Revett, The Antiquities of Athens, 1762

Capital

Stuart and Revett, The Antiquities of Athens, 1762

Stuart and Revett, The Antiquities of Athens, 1762

Pediment

James Stuart and Nicholas Revett were British architects who traveled in Greece from 1751 to 1754 to record and measure the ancient ruins, particularly those of the Acropolis in Athens.  They published their findings in The Antiquities of Athens, the first volume of which appeared in 1762. 

Stuart and Revett (British), The Antiquities of Athens, 1762 

Zephyrus, the West Wind
Chapter 3, Plate 18

The Tower of the Winds, 50 B.C., portrayed in

Stuart and Revett's Antiquities of Athens of 1762.

Nicholas Revett sketching “Theatre of Dionysus Athens” c. 1760 from The Antiquities of Athens vol. 2 (1789)

Stuart and Revett made a drawing that removed a Corinthian capital and portion of its Ionic entablature from the cylindrical Monument of Lysicrates to present it instead as a ninety-degree, cornered object. This allowed people to understand its exquisite detail and helped architects see its application to a rectangular portico. This is Plate VI in Chapter IV in Volume I: “The Choragic Monument of Lysicrates.” 

Julien-David Le Roy (French), Propylaea of the Acropolis in Athens,  from The Ruins of the most beautiful monuments in Greece, Engraving 1758

Giovanni Battista Piranesi,

Temple of Neptune

Paestum, Campania, Italy, from Roman Antiquities, 1761

Giovanni Battista Piranesi,

Temple of Neptune

Paestum, Campania, Italy, from Roman Antiquities, 1761

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, from  Roman Antiquities: Ancient aqueduct of the Acqua Marcia, Etching, 1761

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, from Views of Rome, 28: Basilica of Maxentius, Etching, 1748-1774

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, from Roman Antiquities, vol. I: View of the Pantheon, 1761

Giovanni Battista Piranesi Imaginary Prisons (Le Carceri d'Invenzione), 1749/50 (2nd edition 1761)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi Imaginary Prisons (Le Carceri d'Invenzione), Carceri: Title page, 2nd state. etching

Giovanni Battista Piranesi Imaginary Prisons

(Le Carceri d'Invenzione),

Carceri VII: The Drawbridge, second state.

Etching, 1749/50 (2nd edition 1761)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Untitled etching (called "The Smoking Fire"), plate VI (of 16) from the series The Imaginary Prisons (Le Carceri d'Invenzione), Rome, 1761 edition (reworked from 1745).

Sainte-Genevieve; cross-section

Sainte-Genevieve; cross-section with elevation

Ste Geneviève,  Paris, dome 

J.-G. Soufflot, Sainte-Geneviève,

1764-1790; elevation, facade

J.-G. Soufflot, Sainte-Geneviève, initial elevation

Jacques-Germain Soufflot (French), Ste Geneviève, Paris, 1756-90; 1791 secularized and converted into the French Panthéon

Interior

Jacques-Germain Soufflot (French), Ste Geneviève, Paris, 1756-90; 1791 secularized and converted into the French Panthéon

Interior