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Classical tradition
early modern archaeology
early modern historiography
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European antiquarianism
Renaissance antiquarianism
Renaissance art and architecture
Renaissance history
Renaissance literature
Renaissance reception of antiquity
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- ISBN 9781526117045
- Dimensions: 170 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 12 Oct 2018
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This collection investigates the wide array of local antiquarian practices that developed across Europe in the early modern era. Breaking new ground, it explores local concepts of antiquity in a period that has been defined as a uniform 'Renaissance'. Contributors take a novel approach to the revival of the antique in different parts of Italy, as well as examining other, less widely studied antiquarian traditions in France, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Britain and Poland. They consider how real or fictive ruins, inscriptions and literary works were used to demonstrate a particular idea of local origins, to rewrite history or to vaunt civic pride. In doing so, they tackle such varied subjects as municipal antiquities collections in Southern Italy and France, the antiquarian response to the pagan, Christian and Islamic past on the Iberian Peninsula, and Netherlandish interest in megalithic ruins thought to be traces of a prehistoric race of Giants. -- .
Kathleen Christian is Senior Lecturer in Art History at The Open University
Bianca de Divitiis is Associate Professor in the History of Modern Art at the University of Naples Federico II -- .
