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Local antiquities, local identities : art, literature and antiquarianism in Europe, c. 1400-1700 / edited by Kathleen Christian and Bianca de Divitiis.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (xx, 331 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781526131027
  • 1526131021
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Local antiquities, local identities : Art, literature and antiquarianism in Europe, c. 1400-1700.DDC classification:
  • 709.024 23
LOC classification:
  • N6370 .L63 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
A local Renaissance: Florentine Quattrocento palaces and all'antica styles / Richard Schofield -- 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 -- Roma caput mundi: Rome's local antiquities as symbol and source / Kathleen Christian -- A local sense of the past: spolia, reuse and all'antica building in southern Italy, 1400-1600 / Bianca de Divitiis -- The Gaulish past of Milan and the French invasion of Italy / Oren Margolis -- Reusing and redisplaying antiquities in early modern France / William Stenhouse -- Local antiquities in Spain: from Tarragona to Córdoba / Fernando Marías -- Local antiquaries and the expansive sense of the past: a case study from Counter-Reformation Spain / Katrina B. Olds -- Luís de Camões's The Lusiads and the paradoxes of expansion / João R. Figueiredo -- Semini and his progeny: the construction of Antwerp's antique past / Edward Wouk -- Resurrecting Belgica Romana: Peter Ernst von Mansfeld's garden of antiquities in Clausen, Luxemburg, 1563-90 / Krista De Jonge -- On Romans, Batavians and giants: the quest for the true origin of architecture in the Dutch Republic / Konrad Ottenheym -- The role of ancient remains in the Sarmatian culture of early modern Poland / Barbara Arcizewska -- Inventing England: English identity and the Scottish 'other, ' 1586-1625 / Jenna M. Schultz.
Summary: Examining a range of antiquarian practices - history-writing, archaeological investigations, works of art, architecture and literature - that emerged in early modern Europe, this text challenges the idea of a single 'Renaissance'. It assembles essays on local antiquities in Spain, Portugal, France, Britain, Italy, the Netherlands and Poland.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

A local Renaissance: Florentine Quattrocento palaces and all'antica styles / Richard Schofield -- 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 -- Roma caput mundi: Rome's local antiquities as symbol and source / Kathleen Christian -- A local sense of the past: spolia, reuse and all'antica building in southern Italy, 1400-1600 / Bianca de Divitiis -- The Gaulish past of Milan and the French invasion of Italy / Oren Margolis -- Reusing and redisplaying antiquities in early modern France / William Stenhouse -- Local antiquities in Spain: from Tarragona to Córdoba / Fernando Marías -- Local antiquaries and the expansive sense of the past: a case study from Counter-Reformation Spain / Katrina B. Olds -- Luís de Camões's The Lusiads and the paradoxes of expansion / João R. Figueiredo -- Semini and his progeny: the construction of Antwerp's antique past / Edward Wouk -- Resurrecting Belgica Romana: Peter Ernst von Mansfeld's garden of antiquities in Clausen, Luxemburg, 1563-90 / Krista De Jonge -- On Romans, Batavians and giants: the quest for the true origin of architecture in the Dutch Republic / Konrad Ottenheym -- The role of ancient remains in the Sarmatian culture of early modern Poland / Barbara Arcizewska -- Inventing England: English identity and the Scottish 'other, ' 1586-1625 / Jenna M. Schultz.

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Examining a range of antiquarian practices - history-writing, archaeological investigations, works of art, architecture and literature - that emerged in early modern Europe, this text challenges the idea of a single 'Renaissance'. It assembles essays on local antiquities in Spain, Portugal, France, Britain, Italy, the Netherlands and Poland.

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