Baroque Antiquity - Archaeological Imagination in Early Modern Europe

Informationen zum Autor Victor Plahte Tschudi is a Professor in Architectural History at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. He writes on the interpretation of Roman monuments in texts and images from the Renaissance to the present. Klappentext 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. This pioneering study combines several histories to show how Roman antiquity was transformed to appeal to popes and princes alike in the Baroque period. Zusammenfassung 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. This pioneering study combines several histories to show how Roman antiquity was transformed to appeal to popes and princes alike in the Baroque period. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The archaeology of prints; 2. Custom-made Rome; 3. Moral monuments; 4. Peter versus Jupiter; 5. Father Kircher's retreats; 6. Christ in Tivoli.

Product details

• Authors: Victor Plahte Tschudi, Tschudi Victor Plahte
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.09.2016
• EAN: 9781107149861
• ISBN: 978-1-107-14986-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Europe, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Archaeology by period / region, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600