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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
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Lauro and Kircher ; Ancient Rome's Thin Lines ; Print Antiquarianism ; Seventeenth-century Pasts ; Reconstructions and Allegory ; Baroque Antiquity
  • The Archaeology of Prints. The Print Antiquarian ; Palimpsest Monuments ; Protected Property ; Antiquities without Past
  • Custom-made Rome. Customers of Printed Rome ; Tourists in a Vanished Past ; Collectors' Rome ; Prints for Princes ; Antiquity in Future's Guise
  • Moral Monuments. A Moral Monument ; Antiquity in Emblems ; Temples at the Crossroad ; Allegory in Architecture ; St. Maria della Pace Reconsidered ; The Making of a Type
  • Peter Versus Jupiter. God's Antiquarians ; The Theology of Ruins ; St. Peter's on the Capitol ; Peter versus Jupiter
  • Father Kircher's Retreats. Athanasius Kircher and Architectural Prints ; Kircher Restaurator ; Kircher's Villa of Maecenas ; Viri Doctissimi ; A House of Scholars
  • Christ In Tivoli. Resurrecting Varus' Villa ; The Sibyl's Shrine ; The Architectural History of the Baroque ; Time Rebuilt ; As if in a Bright Mirror.