The 18th-century rediscovery of the three archaic Greek-Doric
temples in Paestum in southern Italy turned existing ideas on
classical architecture upside down. The porous limestone temples
with rough, heavy columns were entirely unlike the classical
architecture travelers to the site were familiar with. Paestum,
exceptional in the completeness of its ruins, came to fascinate
architects, artists, writers, and tourists alike, who documented
the site in drawings and texts. In Rediscovering Architecture,
Sigrid de Jong analyzes extensive original source material,
including letters, diaries, drawings, paintings, engravings, and
published texts, which are attractively reproduced here. The book
offers new insights on the explorations of the site, the diverse
reactions to it, and their dramatic and enduring effect on
architectural thought, as they influenced intellectual debates in
England, France, and Italy during the long 18th century. This
unique study of the experience of architecture reconstructs
Paestum's key role in the discourse on classical architecture and
its historiography, primitivism, the sublime and the picturesque,
and the growing importance of science and history in architectural
thought. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in
British Art
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