Baroque antiquity : archaeological imagination in early modern Europe / Victor Plahte Tschudi (The O...
Baroque antiquity : archaeological imagination in early modern Europe / Victor Plahte Tschudi (The O...
Baroque antiquity : archaeological imagination in early modern Europe / Victor Plahte Tschudi (The Oslo School of Architecture and Design).
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New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
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GQ 2018/0043
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Language
English
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Physical content
xv, 300 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
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 --...
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Publisher
New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2017.
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Summary
"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 th...
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Baroque antiquity : archaeological imagination in early modern Europe / Victor Plahte Tschudi (The Oslo School of Architecture and Design).
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-291) and index.
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GQ 2018/0043
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74VKVGAELxwX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVGAELxwX
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ISBN
110714986X (hardback)
9781107149861 (hardback)
DDC
937.007204
MMS ID
991024154655402626
