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Architecture

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

A Project for Portland / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Stewart, Mark., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-11093-11308
Scope and Contents

This project is an abbreviated Doric temple with an inscription, "Aeterna Templa Caeli," the everlasting temple in the sky (cited by Varro in his De Lingua Latina). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Lexical Diversions of Ian Hamilton Finlay / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Stewart, Mark., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-12079-12303
Scope and Contents

Provides Finlay's descriptions of architectural elements, e.g., column is a consonancy of drums and flutes, volute is a form subsisting in the tree-bark, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Proposal for a Temple of Apollo/Saint-Just / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Stewart, Mark ; Rogan, Peter., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-12603-12835
Scope and Contents

This is the plan for a new neo-classical temple at Finlay's Little Sparta. The image in the photograph is a photomontaged building to be erected against the landscape of Finlay's garden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Temple of Bara / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Stewart, Mark., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-12454-12681
Scope and Contents

Commemorates Joseph Bara, the little drummer boy who was shot by Royalists for shouting "long live the revolution" instead of "long live the king" during the French revolution. The image is a post-modern temple or bandstand in which the columns are composed of interrupted side drums in relief. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Voysey Stile / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Stewart, Mark., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-10987-11200
Scope and Contents

The word 'stile' in the caption refers to a framing panel design for furniture. Voysey was an architect whose work Finlay disliked. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989