The Secret Lives of Buildings: From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories (51 page)

  
10
   “
just as a flower cannot be made
”: Ibid., p. xi.

  
10
   “
Anyone can be creative
”: Quoted in Jane Milling and Graham Ley,
Modern Theories of Performance
(Palgrave, 2001), p. 57.

  
11
   “
No building is ever perfect”:
Alexander,
The Timeless Way of Building
, p. 479.

  
11
   “
we assume we are going to transform it
”: Ibid., p. 485.

T
HE
P
ARTHENON
, A
THENS

  
17
   “
Make your house ready
”: Roy George,
The Life of Proclus: Life in Athens
(1999),
http://www.goddess-athena.org/Encyclopedia/Friends/Proclus/index.htm
.

  
19
   “
There is a sort of bloom of newness
”: Plutarch,
Life of Pericles
, trans. John Dryden,
http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/pericles.html
.

  
20
   “
No one is to go to the sanctuaries”:
Quoted in Michael Routery,
The First Missionary War: The Church Take Over of the Roman Empire
(1997), chap. 4,
http://www.vinland.org/scamp/grove/kreich/chapter4.html
.

  
24
   “
A fortunate shot
”: Quoted in Helen Miller,
Greece through the Ages
(Dent, 1972), p. 12.

  
26
   “
It is very pleasant to walk the streets here
”: Quoted in John Tomkinson,
Ottoman Athens II
,
http://www.anagnosis.gr/index.php?pageID=218&la=eng
.

  
26
   “
Take away everything that you can
”: Comte de Choiseuil Gouffier to Louis Sebastien Fauvel, quoted in Brian Cook,
The Elgin Marbles
(British Museum Publications, 1997), p. 71.

  
27
   “
To enter freely within the walls of the citadel
”: Ibid.

  
28
   “
In amassing these remains of antiquity”:
Quoted in ibid., p. 82.

  
28
   “
You have lost your labour
”: Quoted in ibid., p. 83.

  
28
   “
Cold is the heart, fair Greece! that looks on thee
”: George Gordon, Lord Byron,
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
, canto 2, stanza 15 (1812),
www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/chp10th.htm
.

  
32
   “
a charming midsummer night’s dream
”: Quoted in Mary Beard,
The Parthenon
(Harvard University Press, 2003), p. 100.

  
32
   “
Your majesty stepped today
”: Quoted in ibid., p. 100.

T
HE
B
ASILICA OF
S
AN
M
ARCO
, V
ENICE

  
41
   “
Rome is no longer in Rome
”: Quoted in Charles Freeman,
The Horses of San Marco
(Abacus, 2005), p. 2.

  
54
   “
these barbarians, haters of the beautiful
”: Nicetas Choniates,
Historia Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae
, trans. Bente Bjørnholt, vol. 11 (De Gruyter, 1975),
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/byzmodgreek/Z304/NicetasSignis.htm
.

  
56
   “
The murder of the commander of the
Libérateur”: Quoted in Freeman,
The Horses of San Marco
, p. 193.

A
YASOFYA
, I
STANBUL

  
64
   “
For the glory and elevation of the Romans
”: Constantine VI Porphyrogenitus,
De Cerimoniis Aulae Byzantinae
, quoted in
http://homepage.mac.com/paulstephenson/trans/decero.html
.

  
65
   “
Solomon, I have outdone thee!
”: Quoted in Heinz Kaehler and Cyril Mango,
Hagia Sophia
(Zwemmer, 1967), p. 18.

  
65
   “
seems somehow to float in the air
”: Procopius,
De Aedis
, trans. H. B. Dewing (Loeb Classical Library, 1940),
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Procopius/Buildings/iA*.html
.

  
65
   “
Wondrous it is to see
”: Paul the Silentiary,
Descriptio S. Sophiae
, trans. W. Lethaby and H. Swainson (Macmillan, 1894), p. 52.

  
66
   “
We knew not whether we were in heaven or earth
”: Quoted from
The Russian Primary Chronicle
in Rowland Mainstone,
Hagia Sophia: Architecture, Structure and Liturgy of Justinian’s Great Church
(Thames and Hudson, 1988), p. 11.

  
67
   “
guide his laden vessel
”: Paul the Silentiary,
Descriptio S. Sophiae
, p. 52.

  
67
   “
a large flame of fire issuing forth”:
Nestor Iskander, quoted in Roger Crowley,
Constantinople: The Last Great Siege, 1453
(Faber, 2005), p. 179.

  
68
   “
Hurl your javelins
”: Emperor Constantine XI Palaeologus addressing his forces on 28 May,
Chronicle of the Pseudo-Sphrantzes
, quoted in Judith Herrin,
Byzantium, The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
(Penguin, 2007), p. 22.

  
68
   “
In the name of Allah
”: Quoted in Crowley,
Constantinople
, p. I.

  
73
   “
this ancient building . . . lit with the rays of true belief
”: Quoted in Kaehler and Mango,
Hagia Sophia
, p. 10.

  
73
   “
the victorious Shah of them all
”: Quoted in Robert Mark and Ahmet Çakmak, eds.,
Hagia Sophia from the Age of Justinian until the Present
(Cambridge University Press, 1992), p. 22.

  
75
   “
What a travesty it is!
”: George Young, quoted in Lawrence Kelly, ed.,
A Traveller’s Companion to Istanbul
(Constable and Robinson, 1987), p. 245.

  
76
   “
The Caliphate, your office
”: Quoted in Harold Courtenay Armstrong,
Gray Wolf: The Life of Kemal Ataturk
(New York: Capricorn Books, 1961), p. 201.

T
HE
S
ANTA
C
ASA OF
L
ORETO

  
88
   “
In order that you may bear testimony
”: Quoted in Sister Katherine Maria MICM, “The Holy House of Loreto” (n.d.),
http://www.catholicism.org/loreto-house.html
.

  
93
   “
Beholde and se, ye goostly folkes all
”: Richard Pynson,
Ballade of Walsing-ham
(1490), stanzas 1, 2,
http://www.walsinghamanglicanarchives.org.uk/pynsonballad.htm
.

  
94
   “
O doughter, consider
”: Ibid., stanzas 4, 5.

  
96
   “
O gracyous Lady, glory of Jerusalem” :
Ibid., stanza 21.

  
99
   “
’Twas in the moon of wintertime” :
Jean de Brebeuf,
The Huron Carol
(ca. 1643), trans. Jesse Edgar Middleton (1926),
http://www.angelfire.com/ca2/cmascorner/Huron.htm
.

G
LOUCESTER
C
ATHEDRAL

107
   “
In winter woe befell me
”: Quoted in Alison Weir,
Isabella: She-Wolf of France, Queen of England
(Jonathan Cape, 2005), p. 264.

108
   “
Sitting at the table in the abbot’s hall”: Historia et Cartarium Monasterii Sancti Petri Gloucestriae
, quoted in David Welander,
The History, Art and Architecture of Gloucester Cathedral
(Alan Sutton, 1991), p. 144.

110
   “
took much delight in working with his own hands
”: Ibid., p. 150.

110
   “
the offerings of the faithful” :
Ibid., p. 146.

115
   “
died without having done anything
”: Ibid., p. 236.

117
   “
John Gowere
”: Quoted in Welander,
The History, Art and Architecture of Gloucester Cathedral
, p. 254.

118
   “
Hic incipient constituciones
”:
http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/texts/regius.html
.

119
   “
In the name of the Lord”:
Quoted in Weir,
Isabella, She-Wolf of France, Queen of England
, pp. 203—4.

T
HE
A
LHAMBRA
, G
RANADA

136
   “
Had I been he
”: Quoted in Robert Irwin,
The Alhambra
(Profile Books, 2005), p. 63.

137
   “
a gate where the roads bifurcate
”: Quoted in Oleg Grabar,
The Alhambra
(Penguin, 1978), p. 57.

137
   “
His throne comprises the heaven and earth
”: Quoted in Irwin,
The Alhambra
, p. 34.

137
   “
I am like a bride
”: Quoted in Grabar,
The Alhambra
, p. 141.

137
   “
With how many fine draperies
”: Quoted in Irwin,
The Alhambra
, p. 33.

138
   “
He is the all-mighty
”: Quoted in ibid., p. 44.

138
   “
In this garden I am an eye filled with delight
”: Quoted in ibid., p. 151.

138
   “
a pearl which adorns
”: Quoted in Grabar,
The Alhambra
, p. 124.

139
   “
The hands of the Pleiades
”: Quoted in Irwin,
The Alhambra
, p. 126.

139
   “
No victor but Allah
”: Quoted in ibid., p. 33.

139
   “
And how many infidel lands
”: Quoted in Grabar,
The Alhambra
, p. 140.

141
   “
The palace was furnished
”:
The Arabian Nights
, quoted in Irwin,
The Alhambra
, p. 15.

T
HE
T
EMPIO
M
ALATESTIANO
, R
IMINI

149
   “
Sigismondo Malatesta was an illegitimate member
”: Pius II,
Commentarii Sinea
, quoted in Franco Borsi,
Leon Battista Alberti: Complete Edition
(Phaidon, 1975), p. 128.

150
   “
Before you blooms and grass lie down
”: Quoted in Hugh Bicheno,
Vendetta: High Art and Low Cunning at the Birth of the Renaissance
(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2008), p. 170.

151
   “
so full of pagan images
”: Pius II,
Commentarii Sinea
, quoted in Borsi,
Leon Battista Alberti
, p. 128.

156
   “
I bear the horn that all may see
”: Quoted in Bicheno,
Vendetta
, p. 176.

156
   “
Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, the son of Pandolfo
”: I. Pasini,
Il Tempio Malatestiano
, exhibition catalog,
Sigismondo Malatesta e suo tempo
(Rimini, 1979), p. 134.

157
   “
Offer supreme honour to those
”: Leon Battista Alberti,
Fatum et Fortuna
, from the
Intercoenales
, quoted in Mark Jarzombek,
On Leon Battista Alberti: His Literary and Aesthetic Theories
(MIT Press, 1989), p. 132.