DESIGN CLIVE ASLET ON THE COCKNEY CHARMER WHO BECAME A PIVOTAL FIGURE IN THE HISTORY OF DESIGN

The Sunday Telegraph London | May 27, 2007| | Copyright

James 'Athenian' Stuart: the Rediscovery of Antiquity

ED BY SUSAN WEBER SOROS

YALE, pounds 60, 688 pp

James 'Athenian' Stuart is one of the most mercurial figures in the history of taste. As his sobriquet suggests, his fame rests on having recorded and, eventually, published a record of the great monuments of Greece, at a time - the mid-18th century - when hardly anyone got there. Back home, he translated his archaeological knowledge into one or two garden buildings: some of the earliest works of the Greek Revival. But it was generally believed that an idle temperament and a fondness for what ...

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