2 C O N T E X T 1 1 9 : M A Y 2 0 1 1 Briefing Context Editor Rob Cowan Editorial Coordinator Fiona Newton 21 George Street, Louth, Lincolnshire LN11 9JU Tel 01507 602567 email [email protected] Editorial Board Fiona Newton (chair) Nigel Crowe (main features) Peter de Figueiredo (book reviews) Michael Taylor (main features) Cartoons by Rob Cowan Context is distributed to all members of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation. © Institute of Historic Building Conservation 2011 ISSN 0958-2746 Publisher Published for the Institute of Historic Building Conservation by Cathedral Communications Limited, High Street, Tisbury,Wiltshire, England SP3 6HA Tel 01747 871717 Fax 01747 871718 email [email protected] www.buildingconservation.com Non-member subscriptions to Context Context is available to non-members of the IHBC at an annual subscription rate, including postage, of: United Kingdom £50.00 Elsewhere £75.00 Subscription orders, together with remittances payable to Institute of Historic Building Conservation, should be sent to the IHBC Business Office at Jubilee House, High Street, Tisbury, Wiltshire SP3 6HA. The views expressed in Context are not necessarily held by the IHBC or the publisher. Neither the publisher nor the IHBC shall be under any liability whatsoever in respect of contributed articles. We gratefully acknowledge the support of firms whose advertisements appear throughout this publication.While every effort has been made to ensure that the information contained in this issue of Context is current and correct, neither the IHBC nor the publisher can be held responsible for any errors or omissions which may occur. Copy deadlines Context is published five times a year, in March, May, July, September and November.The copy deadlines in 2011 are: July, Issue 120 16 May September, Issue 121 18 July November, Issue 122 19 September Fouquet’s models A collection of models of the great buildings and monuments of ancient Greece, Rome and the near east, made by the architectural model maker and artist François Fouquet, will be on display at Sir John Soane’s Museum in London from 15 July to 23 September. As professor of architecture at the Royal Academy from 1806–1837, Soane collected architectural models to use in teaching design and construction. Following in the footsteps of his model-maker father Jean-Pierre (1752– 1829), François Fouquet produced meticulously detailed and fragile plaster-of-Paris restorations, showing the greatest buildings of the ancient world as they might have appeared when first constructed. Archaeological excavations carried out in Italy from the 1730s generated renewed interest in these buildings, and folio editions and models were produced to fill the demand. Soane’s Fouquet models were made between 1790 and 1830 for architects and collectors in Paris, using techniques which remain a mystery. Soane bought his 20 Fouquet models from the architect Edward Cresy in 1834. They include representations of the Temple of Venus at Baalbec; the Parthenon, Erechtheion, Arch of Hadrian and Tower of Winds in Athens; the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (one of the seven wonders of the ancient world); The Temple of Augustus at Pola in Istria (now in Croatia); the Temple of Neptune at Palmyra; the Temple of Vesta at Tivoli; and the Pantheon and the Temple of Fortuna Virillis in Rome. Burges glass returns home The future of two rareWilliam Burgesdesigned stained glass panels has been secured following their purchase for £125,000 by Cadw. The panels, which were once part of a set of 20 for the chapel at Castell Coch near Cardiff, will go on public display at the castle. Burges designed a timber-framed chapel springing out of the roof of theWell Tower which was fitted with the stained glass panels. The chapel was demolished sometime before 1891 and the 20 panels were recorded as being stored on site in 1901. Ten of those panels are on display in a gallery at Cardiff Castle, while eight more are displayed in a model of the chapel in the attic room of Castell Coch’s Well Tower. The whereabouts of the two missing panels had been a mystery until they failed to sell at an auction last year. The panels showWelsh and British saints and biblical figures.
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