Charles Robert Cockerell

Charles Robert Cockerell

Charles Robert Cockerell (born April 28, 1788 in London , † September 17, 1863 there ) was a British architect and archaeologist .

As a student of his father, Samuel Pepys Cockerell (1754-1827), he worked in 1809 as assistant to Robert Smirkes in the reconstruction of the Covent Garden Theater and studied ancient architecture in Italy, Greece and Asia Minor from 1810 to 1817. He took part in the research of the temple of Aphaia in Aegina and, with Carl Haller von Hallerstein and Jakob Linckh , found the gable figures that were later sold to Munich. He also took part in the excavations at Phigalia and had the frieze of the Temple of Apollo at Bassae in London created. This can be seen in the British Museum .

In 1817, when he returned to London, he opened his own studio, which was quite successful. Subsequently he provided the designs for the Church of Holy Trinity in Bristol 's Hotwells district (1829), for the Bank of England buildings in Plymouth (1835), Bristol (1844–1847), Manchester (1845) and Liverpool ( 1845–1848), the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford (1839–1845) and the expansion of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge (1848).

In 1841 Cockerell was accepted as a foreign member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts . He won the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture in 1848 and became President of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1860 .

Fonts

• About the of Messrs Brøndstedt, Cockerell, v. Haller, Koes and v. Stackelberg newly found bas-reliefs in the temple of Apollo Epicurius at Phigalia in Arcadia, compiled from the Italian and English . With 5 copper plates. Weimar: Landes-Industrie-Comptoir, 1816.
• Le statue della favola di Niobe dell'Imp. e. R. Galleria di Firenze . Florence: Moloni, 1818
• A description of the collection of ancient marbles in the British Museum. with engravings . London 1830. Digitized by Arachne
• The temple of Jupiter Olympius at Agrigentum commonly called the temple of the Grants . London: Priestley & Weale, 1830. In: Antiquities of Athens and other places in Greece Sicily etc…: Supplementary to the antiquities of Athens by James Stuart and Nicholas Revett . London: 1830. Digitized by HEIDI
  • The antiquities of Athens; Vol. 3; Antiquities of Athens and other places in Greece, Sicily, and Asia Minor . Darmstadt 1833 digitized text tape HEIDI , digitized table tape HEIDI
• On the architectural Works of William of Wykeham . London: Longman [u. a.], 1846.
• Iconography of the West Front of Wells Cathedral with an appendix on the sculptures of other medieval churches in England . London 1851 Digital copy of the Bavarian State Library
  • The iconography of the west front of Wells Cathedral . 1851
• The temples of Jupiter Panhellenius at Aegina and of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae near Phigaleia in Arcadia. to which is add a memoir of the systems of proportion employed in the original design of these structures . London 1860 digitized HEIDI

literature

• David Watkin: The life and work of CR Cockerell. Zwemmer, London 1974, ISBN 0-302-02571-5 ( Studies in Architecture 14).
• Roland Étienne, Françoise Étienne: La Grèce antique. Archeology d'une découverte. Gallimard, Paris 1990, ISBN 2-07-053043-4 ( Découvertes Gallimard 84: Archeology ), pp. ??.
• General Artists Lexicon, Vol. 20, 1998, p. 77.