Baroque antiquity : archaeological imagination in early modern Europe / Victor Plahte Tschudi (The Oslo School of Architecture and Design).
2017
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Title
Baroque antiquity : archaeological imagination in early modern Europe / Victor Plahte Tschudi (The Oslo School of Architecture and Design).
Published
New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Description
xv, 300 pages ; 27 cm
Associated name
Scope and content
"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.
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references 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
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
CONCLUSION.
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
CONCLUSION.
Place of creation/publication
United States -- New York (State).
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DG82 .T78 2017