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Baroque antiquity : archaeological imagination in early modern Europe /

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 ant...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tschudi, Victor Plahte
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Lauro, Giacomo, > active 17th century > Criticism and interpretation.
Kircher, Athanasius, > 1602-1680 > Criticism and interpretation.
Rome > Antiquities > Historiography.
Monuments > Rome > Historiography.
Architecture, Roman > Historiography.
Antiquarians > Europe > History > 17th century.
Printing > Social aspects > Europe > History > 17th century.
Historiography > Political aspects > Europe > History > 17th century.
Civilization, Baroque > Europe.
Europe > Intellectual life > 17th century.

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