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【正文】 He thus had the opportunity to realize the dream he had been saving for since his father’s death, and, just as important, he had the social advantages of traveling with the brother of an earl. He was as much concerned with meeting young noblemen abroad as with acquiring more architectural knowledge from a study of the monuments of Roman antiquity. The letters he wrote to his family during his years abroad show Adam to be a madly ambitious young man, an arrogant social climber, and yet still a dedicated artist. He met Hope in Brussels, and they proceeded to Paris, where Adam fitted himself out in the latest fashions and set out to ―lay in a stock of good acquaintance that may be of use to me hereafter.‖ After fewer than three weeks in Paris, they set off for Italy via the south of France, visiting en route the ancient Roman sites of Arles, N238。risseau, who agreed to acpany him as instructor and draftsman on the tour. Cl233。risseau, Adam came into contact with avantgarde architectural theory in Rome. He wrote: I hope to have my ideas greatly enlarged and my taste formed upon the solid foundation of genuine antiquity. Cl233。risseau’s] studies of the antique, basreliefs and other ornaments. Adam left Florence in February 1755 and traveled to Rome, where he had to choose whether to devote himself to elegant society or to architecture: If I am known in Rome to be an architect, if I am seen drawing or with a pencil in my hand, I cannot enter into genteel pany who will not admit an artist or, if they do admit him, will very probably rub affronts on him in order to prevent 工業(yè)設(shè)計專業(yè)英語課程作業(yè) 外文翻譯 his appearing at their cardplaying, balls and concerts. He had to decide: Shall I lose Hope and my introduction to the great, or shall I lose Cl233。risseau, Adam settled down to serious study, visiting, sketching, and measuring the monuments of antiquity. Among the important figures he met in Rome were the art collector Cardinal Giuseppe Albani and the engraver Giambattista Piranesi, who dedicated to him his plan of ancient Rome in his book Il Campo Marzio (1762), which contained an engraved portrait of Adam. In May 1757 Adam and Cl233。 the movement and vigour of the architecture of Sir John Vanbrugh。 Roman archaeology。 almost without exception these consisted of the pletion or redecoration of earlier houses. It was ironic that, despite his fame and ability, Adam was rarely called upon to build pletely new houses, nor was he to realize his grandiose ideas for public buildings until the very end of his life. The first Adam interiors at Hatchlands (1758–61), Surrey, and Shardeloes (1759–61), Buckinghamshire, were still nearPalladian, but by 1761 his mature style was developing. Commissions from this time include Harewood House, Yorkshire。 Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire。 and Osterley Park, Middlesex (now in Hounslow, London). In 1762 he was employed to redesign the interior of Syon House. Adam produced an important plan that proposed filling an old centre court with a vast, domed, pantheonlike hall。 Lansdowne House (1762–68), Berkeley Square, London。 Newby Hall (c. 1767–80), Yorkshire。 Home House (1775–77), No. 20, Portman Square, for the countess of Home (the original site of the Courtauld Institute of Art [see Courtauld Institute Galleries])。 demolished 1862) in Grosvenor Square for the 1
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