Pirro Ligorio's Worlds - Antiquarianism, Classical Erudition and the Visual Arts in the Late Renaissance

A reconsideration of the manifold interests of the central and controversial figure Pirro Ligorio, an ambiguous antagonist of the canon embodied by Michelangelo and one of the most fascinating and learned antiquarians in the entourage of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese.

About the author

Ginette Vagenheim, Ph. D. (1992), is Professor of Latin Language, Literature and Humanities at the Université of Rouen-Normandie. She has published numerous articles and collective books on Pirro Ligorio, Antiquarianism and Classical scholarship in the Renaissance and its reception.
Fernando Loffredo, Ph.D. (2010), is currently post-doctoral fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte. He was the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow 2015-2017 at CASVA and he taught as Visiting Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University and the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.12.2018
• EAN: 9789004382657
• ISBN: 978-90-04-38265-7
• No. of pages: 450
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 251 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 998 g
• Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectua
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history