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6 de dic. de 2023 · Robert Smirke, The King’s Library, The British Museum, 1823-7 (London) The commission for the new building was given to Robert Smirke, a well-established neoclassical architect. The building took around thirty years to complete, its elevation mirroring the expanse of the British Empire itself. He started with the east wing, built to house the ...
Robert Smirke, The King's Library, The British Museum, 1823-7 (London) The commission for the new building was given to Robert Smirke, a well-established neoclassical architect. The building took around thirty years to complete, its elevation mirroring the expanse of the British Empire itself. He started with the east wing, built to house the ...
1 de feb. de 2018 · Robert Smirke RA (1753 - 1845) Robert Smirke was born in Cumberland, the son of a peripatetic artist. Little is known about his early childhood, but Smirke was taken to London by his father in 1766, where he became apprenticed to the coach-painter John Bromley. In 1772, Smirke entered the Royal Academy Schools.
10 de mar. de 2022 · Sir Robert Smirke was commissioned to design a new building. Smirke’s original design – inspired by the architecture of the ancient Greek world – comprised a huge quadrangle open to the air (now the Great Court ) surrounded on all four sides by galleries for sculpture, small objects, natural history collections and library spaces.
Sir Robert Smirke RA was an English architect, one of the leaders of Greek Revival architecture, though he also used other architectural styles. As architect to the Board of Works, he designed several major public buildings, including the main block and façade of the British Museum. He was a pioneer of the use of concrete foundations.
Robert Smirke. Arquitecto inglés nacido en Londres. Discípulo de John Soane, fue el gran representante del estilo neogriego en Inglaterra, junto a los también arquitectos William Wilkins (1778-1839) y Alexander Thomson (1817-1875). Es el autor de algunos bloques de edificios en Trafalgar Square entre 1824 y 1827, además de ser el artífice ...
British Museum. …the Greek Revival style by Sir Robert Smirke, was built on the site of Montagu House in the period 1823–52 and has been the subject of several subsequent additions and alterations. Its famous round Reading Room was built in the 1850s; beneath its copper dome laboured such scholars as Karl….
