Susan M. Peik, Director, Friends of Schinkel, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Charlottenhof and the Roman Baths:
Antique, Italian Aristocratic and Vernacular Influence

In the following paper, I examine Antique, Italian Aristocratic and Vernacular elements that influenced the design of Charlottenhof and the Roman Baths. Whether antique, noble or rustic, these Mediterranean and Italian architectonic features and landscape devices--appropriated by the Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm (IV), Schinkel, Lenné, and Ludwig Persius--were characterized by a quiet simplicity freed from the historical rhetoric of imperialism that had so characterized the architecture of Louis the XIVth and Dutch Palladianism, the favoured styles of previous generations of Hohenzollern princes.

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