On the day of the funeral, the full cortege walked from the Capitol to the White House along Pennsylvania Avenue, a street that was then just beginning to take on its current appearance of the country’s civic stage. It was already an imperial way. Since Thomas Jefferson’s second term as president (1805-9), it had served […]

3.2 Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Opere varie… vol. 7: Campus Martius. Rome, 1762. Tav. V-X, Ichnographia. Detail of area around Pantheon Although the building had served a variety of functions in its lifetime and had, for some twelve centuries, been a church consecrated as Santa Maria ad Martyres, by Piranesi’s day it was, in the main, […]

One can look at each of the paths followed by the royals, the Catholics, and the Social Democrats as narratives about both group and urban identity. The Catholics fashioned a new ritual that allowed them to proclaim publicly their identity rooted in the medieval city, while careful to do so within prescribed limits so as […]

Deborah E. B. Weiner Introduction The re-use of historic buildings for purposes of redevelopment in the name of ‘heritage’ and ‘preservation’ is a complicated, and at times disturbing, global phenomenon with counterparts in every major city. In England the fabric of historic buildings, and even whole building types, have been threatened and lost in the […]

The funeral proper took place in the amphitheatre of the Arlington National Cemetery. The white marble colonnaded outdoor auditorium has all the qualities of a fully realized Beaux-Arts student drawing and was, in fact, the creation of one of the leading French-trained American firms, Carrere and Hastings. The liturgy used was a modified form of […]