Eloquence of Appropriation.

Preface; I. Introduction: I.1 Prelude 'To Imitate the Bees'; I.2 Towards an Interpretation of Spolia: Delimitations and Methods; I.3 Reuse The Development of a New Architectural Practice; II. Translatio of Materials: II.1 Fragments and Fragmentation. The Disposition of Spolia in Church Buildings; II.2 Translations and Transferences: Christian Versions of Roman Architecture; II.3 The Aesthetics of Appropriation Eclecticism, Variety, and Antithetical Harmonies; III. Translatio of Meanings: III.1 Breaking Down the Past Rejections of Rationality; III.2 'Seeing the invisible' Towards a New Metaphorical Architecture; III.3 To 'Strip Error Bare' The Rhetoric of Transformation; IV. Translatio of Time: IV.1 'Novelty in the Old and Age in the New'. The Rhetoric of Renovation; IV.2 Recollecting the Past Spolia and Historical Consciousness; IV.3 Inventing the Past: Spolia and the Ideology of Classicism; Bibliography; List of Illustrations; Photo Credits; Index.'L'ERMA' di BRETSCHNEIDER