["Ludwig occupied Herrenchimsee Palace on one occasion only: for ten nights
in the autumn of 1885." -- Wilfrid Blunt, THE DREAM KING. Ludwig was
declared insane and subsequently soon died mid-June 1886.]
and if i remember correctly my visit there decades ago the castle , at least
the "Galerie des Glaces" and/or stairways downstairs to the garden and the
rectangular laguna (opened into the Herrenchiemsee lake, a difference from
Versailles ) were unfinished,
About the dead of Ludwig the II, who knows if it was a suicidal or induced
one. He was a day dreamer.
( Were Herrenchiemsee and others castles from this crazy --surrounded by
geniuses, craftmen and / or architects --- re-enactments or re-enactions? )
Could building a copy of Versailles be some kind of "révérence" (hommage)
to a predecessor ?
(not a king, but an architect !)
Do modern architects build , sometimes, with a similar purpose ?
does such behavior of 'homenage" need an older fashioned way of not beeing
in the need to show a better way of working/producing than the
concurrent/adversaries/predecessor, but instead to produce "just" a
smartly adapted copy/ reenactment/ interprétation/ act.
Could you imagine now some Calatrava or Liebeskind completely copying or
totally reproducing even with all details an older building like Ludwig
ordered to do ( in some probable but finally positive) crazyness ??
And then what are restauration architects (those of Postdam,London, Dresden,
Warsaw,Hildesheim, Montecassino, ...)
Are they silly guys without imagination or clever guys transforming a dead
body of bricks into a new (urban)(art) texture.
Reenactors becoming "Revivalists..."
Patrice
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in the autumn of 1885." -- Wilfrid Blunt, THE DREAM KING. Ludwig was
declared insane and subsequently soon died mid-June 1886.]
and if i remember correctly my visit there decades ago the castle , at least
the "Galerie des Glaces" and/or stairways downstairs to the garden and the
rectangular laguna (opened into the Herrenchiemsee lake, a difference from
Versailles ) were unfinished,
About the dead of Ludwig the II, who knows if it was a suicidal or induced
one. He was a day dreamer.
( Were Herrenchiemsee and others castles from this crazy --surrounded by
geniuses, craftmen and / or architects --- re-enactments or re-enactions? )
Could building a copy of Versailles be some kind of "révérence" (hommage)
to a predecessor ?
(not a king, but an architect !)
Do modern architects build , sometimes, with a similar purpose ?
does such behavior of 'homenage" need an older fashioned way of not beeing
in the need to show a better way of working/producing than the
concurrent/adversaries/predecessor, but instead to produce "just" a
smartly adapted copy/ reenactment/ interprétation/ act.
Could you imagine now some Calatrava or Liebeskind completely copying or
totally reproducing even with all details an older building like Ludwig
ordered to do ( in some probable but finally positive) crazyness ??
And then what are restauration architects (those of Postdam,London, Dresden,
Warsaw,Hildesheim, Montecassino, ...)
Are they silly guys without imagination or clever guys transforming a dead
body of bricks into a new (urban)(art) texture.
Reenactors becoming "Revivalists..."
Patrice
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