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Title(s):

The romance of ruins : the search for ancient Ionia 1764 / edited by Ian Jenkins and Louise Stewart ; catalogue by Celeste Farge.

Published/Created:
London : Sir John Soane's Museum, in collaboration with The British Museum, 2021.
Physical Description:
240 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 23 x 26 cm
Holdings:
Reference Library
DS156.I6 R66 2021 (LC) Oversize
Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
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Full Orbis Record:
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/16851466
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Exhibition held March 3-May 31, 2021 at Sir John Soane's Museum, London, UK .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-234) and index.
The exhibition and book focus on the Society of Dilettanti's 1764 expedition to ancient Greek cities that were founded on the coast of Western Anatolia (modern Turkey). This region was known to the ancients as Ionia and was part of the Greek world from the 8th century BC. Although ruined in antiquity, the beauty and fame of the Ionian cities lived on in the writings of ancient commentators such as Herodotus and Strabo. The powerful and poetic images here are by the brilliant young artist William Pars. Begun on the expedition and later worked up in the studio, they record the classical ruins encountered on the expedition, and also the living landscape - its flora and fauna, and the customs, manners and dress of the people. They are a companion to the published diary account of the expedition by the antiquary Richard Chandler. This remarkable set of pictorial documents has never been fully published in spite of their beauty and the Enlightenment themes of travel and discovery that they represent. The book includes an introduction by the exhibition's curator, Ian Jenkins, Senior Curator at the British Museum, a series of essays by eminent scholars, and a catalogue of works in the exhibition.
Subject Terms:
Antiquities.
Eastern Hemisphere -- Ionia (Turkey and Greece)
Ionia (Turkey and Greece) -- Antiquities -- Exhibitions.
Pars, William, 1742-1782 -- Exhibitions.
Pars, William, 1742-1782.
Form/Genre:
Exhibition catalogs.
Contributors:
Jenkins, Ian (Ian Dennis), editor.
Stewart, Louise (Curator), editor.
Farge, Celeste, editor.
Sir John Soane's Museum, host institution.
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  • Directors' foreword
  • This wonderful day : in search of ancient Ionia / Ian Jenkins
  • The eye of Asia: portrait of Smyrna as a world city / Philip Mansel
  • Quorum Pars magna fui: the role of William Pars / Kim Sloan
  • The Society of Dilettanti and the study of Greek antiquity / Jason M. Kelly
  • Etiam periere ruinae: Chandler, the troad and Troy / J. Lesley Fitton
  • Voyaging without romanticism: travels with Richard Chandler and the trials and tribulations of the Ionian expedition
  • Hunting inscriptions on the Ionian mission: Richard Chandler and the development of Greek epigraphy / Robert K. Pitt
  • A new species of human beings: enlightened encounters with the Anatolian 'other' in the eighteenth century / Tuğba Tanyeri-Erdemir
  • Catalogue. Drawings by William Pars associated with the Ionian mission in the collection of the British Museum / Celeste Farge.