Title: Public pantheons in revolutionary Europe : comparing cultures of remembrance, c. 1790-1840 /
Authors: Bouwers, Eveline G., 1981-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Memorialization Europe History; Memorialization Europe History; Memorials Europe.; Collective memory Europe.; HISTORY / Europe / Western.; HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century.; HISTORY / Social History.; ARCHITECTURE / History / General.; Europe History; Europe History
Abstract: "The story of how the concept of a pantheon, a building honouring great individuals, spread across Revolutionary Europe and interacted with socio-political and cultural changes. Analysing the canon and iconography of each pantheon, Bouwers shows how the commemoration of war and celebration of nationhood gave way to the protection of elite interests."--Publisher's website.
Contents: Introduction: The Journey of the European Pantheonic Imagination -- Pantheon: the History of a Concept on the Move -- Competition in the Parliamentary Pantheon in London -- The Eclipse of Exemplarity: the Imperial Pantheon in Paris -- A Papal Pantheon? Canova's 'illustrious Italians' in Rome -- 'National education' in a Royal Pantheon in Regensburg -- Conclusions: Public Pantheons: a European History?