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Baroque antiquity : archaeological imagination in early modern Europe / Victor Plahte Tschudi (The Oslo School of Architecture and Design).
Author
Tschudi, Victor Plahte
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Description
xv, 300 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
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Firestone Library - Classics Collection
DG82 .T78 2017
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Subject(s)
Monuments
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Rome
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Historiography
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Architecture, Roman
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Historiography
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Antiquarians
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Europe
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History
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17th century
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Printing
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Social aspects
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Europe
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History
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17th century
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Historiography
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Political aspects
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Europe
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History
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17th century
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Civilization, Baroque
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Europe
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Rome
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Antiquities
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Historiography
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Europe
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Intellectual life
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17th century
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Lauro, Giacomo active 17th century
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Criticism and interpretation
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Kircher, Athanasius 1602-1680
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Criticism and interpretation
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Summary note
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-291) and index.
Contents
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
S. Maria della Pace Reconsidered
The Making of a Type
PETER VERSUS JUPITER
God's Antiquarians
The Theology of Ruins
S. 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's Villa
The Sibyl's Shrine
The Architectural History of the Baroque
Time Rebuilt
As if in a Bright Mirror
CONCLUSION.
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ISBN
9781107149861 ((hardback))
110714986X ((hardback))
LCCN
2016008588
OCLC
958970949
Other standard number
40026531333
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