Dream and Reality
Danish Antiquaries, Architects and Artists in Greece
Ida Haugsted
This book provides an outline of the story of Danish travellers in Greece, illuminating aspects of both the cultural history of Greece and the period of the Danish golden age in the first half of the nineteenth century. In treating this hitherto underexamined subject, Dream and Reality makes a contribution to the general study of European culture in the nineteenth century.
Preface
Introduction
The foundations
King Christian VIII
The mission
I: THE TURKISH PERIOD 1810-1828
Danish antiquaries in Greece
The pioneers Brondsted and Koes
Paris and Rome
From Naples to Athens
Arrival in Athens
Meeting Athenian society
Studies in Athens and its environs
Journey to Hydra and the Peloponnese
Cockerell and Foster in Athens
Notes
Brondsted's travels, studies and excavations
From the mountains to the Sublime Porte
The Aegina sculpture
Koes' last diary notes
Thessalian days
The travel to Bassae
Back in Athens
Excavations in Kea
"Darstellungen von Griechenland"
Excavations in Phigalia
Travels to Zakynthos and Epirus
Corfu, Rome and the return
Working on the Greek material
Notes
Koch's diary
The architect Jorgen Hansen Koch
Travel plans
In Otranto and Corfu
From the Ionian islands to Piraeus
"I dreamt I was in Paradise"
The temples
Excursions
Departure from Athens
Notes
Brondsted and Koch
Brondsted in Rome
Meeting in Rome
In Naples and Zakynthos
In Paris, London and Copenhagen
Publishing books on Greece
Notes
II. THE EARLY OTHONIAN PERIOD 1829-1839
The Liberation
A Danish scholar
Architects in Greece
Antiquaries arriving
King Otho's arrival in Nauplia
The Acropolis in 1833
Notes
Forming the new state
The architect Christian Hansen
Ross's and Fable's appointments in Nauplia
Ross's travel to Olympia
Hansen in Athens
Town plans
Hansen's first projects in 1833-34
Notes
Athens, capital of Greece
A Royal Palace on the Acropolis
Klenze in Athens
Restoration plans
The National Theatre
Piraeus
The Royal Residence
The move from Nauplia to Athens
Life in the new capital
Notes
The Acropolis and the Coronation in 1835
The first restoration
The Temple of Hephaistos as a museum
The Coronation in June 1835
Fable goes home
Plaster casts and antiquities
Notes
Bindesboll and Rorbye in Greece
Travel and arrival
The most Arcadian land
The spoliation in Athens
The building activity
Excursions
Return to Rome
Greek drawings in Copenhagen
Notes
The Temple of Athena Nike, and King Ludwig
The Temple of Athena Nike
King Ludwig's mission in Greece
The Royal Palace
Ludwig in Milos
More about the Temple of Nike
The Acropolis, studies and drawings
The plans for an Acropolis Museum
Notes
Chr. Hansen's projects in Athens 1835-1839
The Polytechnic
Hansen's own statements
The Mint
The Hill School
Prokesch von Osten's house
Gardens, prisons, etc
The Hospital of Hope
The Anglican church and neo-Gothic
Notes
Hansen's projects in the provinces 1836-1838
Buildings and projects in Piraeus
The new Sparta
Corinth, and an unrealized project
Lighthouses
The bath in Kythnos
Notes
Politics, archaeology and the artists at the end of the 1830s
The political situation
The archaeological situation
Painters in Greece
Heinrich Siegel and the Lion
Theophilus Hansen's arrival
Forchhammer returning in 1839
The Danish sisters and other visitors
Notes
The Othonian University
The University established
Notes
III. THE LATE OTHONIAN PERIOD 1840-1862
Events, travels and visitors 1840-1842
The royal tour to the Peloponnese
K.O.Muller's visit - and death
A painter and a daguerreotypist
"Here I felt no longing " - Hans Christian Andersen
Ross and Koppen on tour
The architect N.S. Nebelong
"Thetis " visiting
Notes
Restorations in the 1840s
The Erechtheion restored
The Lysikrates Monument
Hosios Loukas
Notes
The Hansen brothers' new architecture in Athens
Byzantine revival
The Metropolis
Chr. Hansen's Ophthalmos
The Duchesse
Kleanthis or Christian Hansen
The houses of Sophie de Plaisance
The Dimitrios House by Th. Hansen
The Observatory
Notes
The revolt of 15th September 1843
Troubles begin
The revolt
Danes dismissed
Chr. Hansen's harbour complex in Isthmia
Reports on the situation
Ross's last travels and his departure
Notes
Greek studies in the mid-1840s
Carl August Moller
J.L. Ussing, studies and travels
Excursions
Theophilus Hansen's departure
Ussing in Delphi
Travelling in Thessaly
Ussing's return to Copenhagen
Plaster casts from Athens
Hansen's tombstones and "the Hansen Vases"
Friedrich Thoming, a note
Notes
L.A. Winstrup's stay and Hansen's departure
Hansen's visits to Copenhagen and Trieste
L.A. Winstrup's arrival
Winstrup's excursions in 1850
Chr. Hansen's departure for Trieste
Casts of the Parthenon frieze, etc.
Notes
Epilogue
Two Danish architects on tour
Louis Gurlitt - a few words
Theophilus Hansen's return
The Academy of Sciences and Letters
King Otho's exit and King George
Notes
Short biographies
Registration
Appendix: The Greek diary of the painter Martinus Rorbye
Bibliography
Index
ISBN 1873132751
Binding Hardback
Dimensions 282 x 230mm
Illustrations 268 halftone
Published December 1996
Price £85.00