Baroque antiquity : archaeological imagination in early modern Europe /

This book explains how Baroque antiquarians distorted images of Roman monuments and sacrificed archaeological truth to accommodate popes and princes.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tschudi, Victor Plahte (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Colección:Cambridge EBA Collection
Temas:
Lauro, Giacomo, > active 17th century > Criticism and interpretation.
Kircher, Athanasius, > 1602-1680 > Criticism and interpretation.
Kircher, Athanasius, > 1602-1680.
Lauro, Giacomo, > active 17th century.
Lauro, Giacomo
Kircher, Athanasius > 1602-1680
1600-1699
Monuments > Rome > Historiography.
Architecture, Roman > Historiography.
Antiquarians > Europe > History > 17th century.
Printing > Social aspects > Europe > History > 17th century.
Historiography > Political aspects > Europe > History > 17th century.
Civilization, Baroque > Europe.
Monuments > Rome > Historiographie.
Architecture romaine > Historiographie.
Spécialistes d'histoire ancienne > Europe > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Civilisation baroque > Europe.
HISTORY > Ancient > Rome.
Antiquarians.
Antiquities > Historiography.
Civilization, Baroque.
Historiography > Political aspects.
Intellectual life.
Printing > Social aspects.
Antike
Bauwerk
Rezeption
Barock
Rome > Antiquities > Historiography.
Europe > Intellectual life > 17th century.
Rome > Antiquités > Historiographie.
Europe > Vie intellectuelle > 17e siècle.
Europe.
Rome (Empire)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:This book explains how Baroque antiquarians distorted images of Roman monuments and sacrificed archaeological truth to accommodate popes and princes.
"Why were seventeenth-century antiquarians so spectacularly wrong? Even if they knew what ancient monuments looked like, they deliberately distorted the representation of them in print. Deciphering the printed reconstructions of Giacomo Lauro and Athanasius Kircher, this pioneer study uncovers an antiquity born with print culture itself and from the need to accommodate competitive publishers, ambitious patrons, and powerful popes. By analyzing the elements of fantasy in Lauro and Kircher's archaeological visions new levels of meaning appear. Instead of being testimonies of failed archaeology, they emerge as complex architectural messages responding to moral, political, and religious issues of the day. This book combines several histories--print, archaeology, architecture--in the attempt to identify early modern strategies of recovering lost Rome. Many books have been written on antiquity in the Renaissance, but this book defines an antiquity that is particularly Baroque"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xv, 300 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-291) and index.
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