Baroque Antiquity: Archaeological Imagination in Early Modern Europe - Victor Plahte Tschudi - Books - Cambridge University Press - 9781107149861 - September 12, 2016
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Baroque Antiquity: Archaeological Imagination in Early Modern Europe

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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. This pioneering study combines several histories to show how Roman antiquity was transformed to appeal to popes and princes alike in the Baroque period.


320 pages, 100 b/w illus. 8 colour illus.

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released September 12, 2016
ISBN13 9781107149861
Publishers Cambridge University Press
Pages 320
Dimensions 184 × 261 × 20 mm   ·   874 g
Language English  

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