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Local antiquities, local identities : art, literature and antiquarianism in Europe, c. 1400-1700 /

This collection investigates the wide array of local antiquarian practices that developed across Europe in the early modern era, c. 1400-1700. Breaking new ground, it explores local concepts of antiquity in a period that has been defined as a uniform 'Renaissance.' Contributors take a nove...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Christian, Kathleen (Kathleen Wren), 1971- (Editor), De Divitiis, Bianca (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Art, Renaissance.
Archaeology > Europe > History.
Europe > Antiquities.
Art, European.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Kathleen Christian and Bianca de Divitiis
  • 1. A local Renaissance: Florentine Quattrocento palaces and all'antica styles / Richard Schofield
  • 2. The Arch of Trajan in Ancona and civic identity in the Italian Quattrocento from Ciriaco d'Ancona to the death of Matthias Corvinus / Francesco Benelli
  • 3. Roma caput mundi: Rome's local antiquities as symbol and source / Kathleen Christian
  • 4. A local sense of the past: spolia, reuse and all'antica building in southern Italy, 1400-1600 / Bianca de Divitiis
  • 5. The Gaulish past of Milan and the French invasion of Italy / Oren Margolis
  • 6. Reusing and redisplaying antiquities in early modern France / William Stenhouse
  • 7. Local antiquities in Spain: from Tarragona to Córdoba / Fernando Marías
  • 8. Local antiquities and the expansive sense of the past: a case study from Counter-Reformation Spain / Katrina B. Olds
  • 9. Luis de Camões's The Lusiads and the paradoxes of expansion / João R. Figueiredo
  • 10. Semini and his progeny: the construction of Antwerp's antique past / Edward Wouk
  • 11. Resurrecting Belgica Romana: Peter Ernst von Mansfeld's garden of antiquities in Clausen, Luxemburg, 1563-90 / Krista De Jonge
  • 12. On Romans, Batavians and giants: the quest for the true origin of architecture in the Dutch Republic / Konrad Ottenheym
  • 13. The role of ancient remains in the Sarmatian culture of early modern Poland / Barbara Arciszewska
  • 14. Inventing England: English identity and the Scottish 'other', 1586-1625 / Jenna M. Schultz.