TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zadow,Mario
TI  - Schinkels Blick nach Indien : Schinkel`s look towards India 
SN  - 9783936681710
AV  - NA1088.S3 Z335 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Stuttgart 
PB  - Edition Axel Menges
KW  - Schinkel, Karl Friedrich,
KW  - Architects
KW  - Germany
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Architecture
KW  - India
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - This book discusses a subject to which little attention has been paid to date: Schinkels interest in Indian architecture and culture. This interest was first aroused by the English traveller to India William Hodges, who proposed the thesis that Greek and Indian architecture were of equal value. Later, the English landscape painters Thomas and William Daniell were to become even more important for Schinkel. 'Oriental Scenery', the book that described their travels, left its mark on Europes image of India. The sketches he based on the work of the Daniells were preliminary studies for a huge round panorama that was to show the buildings of various periods and nations in their particular setting. His unrealised project for the summer palace Orianda on the Crimea, at the geographical interface of eastern and western culture, was Schinkels convincing and timeless memorial to his dream of the unity of world cultures. The style of the exterior is classical, while that of the interior is Indian and Islamic
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