Nicholas Revett (1720–1804) was a British architect. Revett is best known for his work with James "Athenian" Stuart documenting the ruins of ancient Athens...
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architecture to flower briefly in France. Following the travels to Greece, Nicholas Revett, a Suffolk architect, and the better remembered James Stuart in the...
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expensive works done on the building. It was rebuilt by the architect Nicholas Revett in the style of the 18th-century Gothic revival. At this time, the...
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work. It had been surveyed and drawn by James "Athenian" Stuart and Nicholas Revett on an expedition in 1751–54, and the engravings were by James Basire...
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engravings was done in 1754 by British classicists James Stuart and Nicholas Revett who had been sent by the Society of Dilettanti, producing a number...
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origins of fossils, prehistoric stone tools and meteorites. 1721: Nicholas Revett (d. 1804) 1726: October 12 - Pierre Henri Larcher (d. 1812) 1729: 25...
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plan for the west portico, but his idea was dropped. The architect Nicholas Revett was consulted and created the west portico. Today, the first sight...
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son of Nicholas Samuel Danforth, poet, Puritan and evangelist to American Indians, born in 1626 in Framlingham, son of Nicholas Nicholas Revett, architect...
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1765–1766, the antiquary Richard Chandler, alongside the architect Nicholas Revett and the painter William Pars, visited Eleusis and mentioned a statue...
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Palmyra to the Society of Dilettanti and sent by them, accompanied by Nicholas Revett, an architect, and William Pars, a painter, to explore the antiquities...
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Athens measured and delineated by James Stuart F.R.S. and F.S.A. and Nicholas Revett Painters and Αrchitects, vol. III (ed. Willey Reveley), London, John...
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churchyard. New St Lawrence Church was designed in a neo-classical style by Nicholas Revett and features a Palladian-style frontage with Doric columns. AA Book...
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Amongst those early travellers and archaeologists were James Stuart and Nicholas Revett, who were commissioned by the Society of Dilettanti to survey the ruins...
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Dilettanti included the Oxford epigraphist Richard Chandler, the architect Nicholas Revett, and the painter William Pars. Their studies were published in 1769...
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purpose. The young British architects James "Athenian" Stuart and Nicholas Revett published the first measured drawings of the monument in their Antiquities...
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sculptures of the two pediments of the Parthenon, by James Stuart and Nicholas Revett in 1794 Roman pediment of the Arch of Augustus, Rimini, 27 BC Roman...
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funded by the Society of Dilettanti in 1751 and led by James Stuart and Nicholas Revett began serious archaeological enquiry. Stuart was commissioned after...
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archaeologist, who engaged in a rivalry with Britons James Stuart and Nicholas Revett over who would publish the first professional description of the Acropolis...
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design pavilions to the north and south of the building. He also had Nicholas Revett add a stone portico and remodel the internal architecture of the north...
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Shaft, capital, and entablature of the unfinished columns - James Athenian Stuart and Nicholas Revett, 1794...
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during the summer. They had the buildings restored by the architect Nicholas Revett in the style of the 18th-century Gothic revival. Hogarth may have painted...
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archaeological expeditions such as that of Richard Chandler, William Pars, and Nicholas Revett, the results of which they published in Ionian Antiquities, a major...
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sculptures of the two pediments of the Parthenon, by James Stuart & Nicholas Revett in 1794 The Temple of Athena Nike with its very damaged pediments The...
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Battista Piranesi, Robert Adam, James Stuart, Georg Friedrich Hegel and Nicholas Revett. A vibrant strain of Neoclassicism, inherited from Marc-Antoine Laugier's...
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Caesaris Augusti, and met Nicholas Revett, a young Suffolk gentleman and amateur architect on his Grand Tour. In 1748 Stuart joined Revett, Gavin Hamilton and...
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as Ionian Antiquities of 1769 by Richard Chandler, William Pars and Nicholas Revett. During his Grand Tour, Smirke made drawings and watercolours of many...
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appointed by the Society of Dilettanti to accompany Richard Chandler and Nicholas Revett during the second archaeological expedition financed by the Society...
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most of the house from pattern books by James Stuart, Minard Lafever, Nicholas Revett and others. Much of the work on the house was executed by highly skilled...
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Kastri. After Cyriacus, English architects James "Athenian" Stuart and Nicholas Revett visited Delphi in 1751, shortly after the uncovering of Herculaneum...
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1765–1766, the antiquary Richard Chandler, along with the architect Nicholas Revett and the painter William Pars, visited Eleusis and mentioned the statue...
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