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Retrace your steps: remember tomorrow.
~ Cedric Price
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Cappella San Severo, 1753
Giuseppe Sammartino, Veiled Christ
The Cappella San Severo dates from the first halfof the 16th century ehen its construction was
requested by Prince Don Paolo di Sangro di
Sansevero. The palace was transformed in the 18th
century by Prince Raimondo di Sangro, a legendary
figure of alchemy and humanism who has givenrise to many mysterious anecdotes, partly deriving
from popular imagination and partly from the
undoubted originality of his character.
Raimondo di Sangro was responsible for the faade
of the palace, decorating it with stuccowork andproviding it with a portal bearing the family coat
of arms.
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It was built as a burial place for the members of
the Sangro family, princes of Sansevero, and
modernised by his son Alessandro in the 17th
century.
The chapel was again refurbished by Raimondo di
Sangro, seventh Prince of Sansevero, who
embellished it with decorations, calling on the
most illustrious artists and sculptors of the time to
carry out the work from 1749 up to his death.
The idea of death suggests a link with the most
celebrated work of art in the chapel: the Veiled
Christ, dated 1753 at the indication of its author,
the sculptor Giuseppe Sammartino, a young
sculptor who, despite his local artistic training,
managed to instill his work with a universal feel.
The shroud in wich Christ is wrapped follows
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every contour of the body but a particularly
impressive details is the beauty, at once sublime
and human, of Christ's dying breath is wonderfully
suggested by the close adhesion of the veil to
Christ's nostrils.
1981
Cedric Price, Cities of the Future
-a study of ageing, which links escalators, slabs
and Georgian windows-
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Cedric Price, Project for a British
Embassy for the Twenty-First Century
Writes Price: "Has Tony Blair done away with the
need for embassies? This embassy for the twenty-
first century features a large mobile canopy and a
vast sofa, which could be erected wherever Blair
lands next".
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1999
Cedric Price, Project for "A lung for
Midtown Manhattan"
-first English edition: 1978-
The book contains numerous short fiction pieces
demonstrating or related to the cut up method.Also included is poetry by Gysin and an interview
with Burroughs. Some chapters had previously
been published in various literary journals
between 1960 and 1973.
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London, 1964
Cedric Price, South Bank Centre
A proposal for a raft of balloons forming a canopy,
whose height could vary in order to accomodate
temporary exhibitions underneath.