It was a work which appealed to architects and antiquarians alike and, as Neville (2007) suggests, may have been influenced by a similar scheme of Christopher Wren’s. ![]() Divided into five books, the work covers not only the ruins of ancient buildings such as the famed Temple of Solomon at Jerusalem, and the amazing Pyramids of Giza, the imposing Temple of Artemis at Ephesus and the gigantic Mausoleum of Hadrian at Rome, but also includes more modern structures, such as Fischer von Erlach’s plans for the Schönbrunn palace at Vienna, as well as other aristocratic palaces and edifices there. This map, from Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach’s magisterial work on civil and historical architecture, demonstrates the vast geographical scope of Fischer von Erlach’s enormous undertaking. ![]() Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Entwurff Einer Historischen Architectur: in Abbildung unterschiedener berühmten Gebäude des Alterthums und fremder Völcker umb aus den Geschicht-büchern, Gedächtnüß-münzen, Ruinen, und eingeholten wahrhafften Abrißen, vor Augen zu stellen (Leipzig, 1725), map. Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Entwurff Einer Historischen Architectur, preface. ![]() ‘Artists will here see, that Nations differ no less in their Taste for Architecture, than in Food and Raiment, and, by comparing one with the other, they themselves may make a Judicious choice.’
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