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Archaeological Imagination in Early Modern Europe

The Oslo School of Architecture and DesignVictor Plahte Tschudi

Baroque Antiquity

Why were seventeenth-century antiquarians so spectacularly wrong? Even if theyknew what ancient monuments looked like, they deliberately distorted therepresentation of them in print. Deciphering the printed reconstructions of GiacomoLauro and Athanasius Kircher, this pioneering study uncovers an antiquity born withprint culture itself and from the need to accommodate competitive publishers,ambitious patrons and powerful popes. By analysing the elements of fantasy in Lauroand Kircher’s archaeological visions, new levels of meaning appear. Instead of beingtestimonies of failed archaeology, they emerge as complex architectural messagesresponding to moral, political, and religious issues of the day. This book combinesseveral histories – print, archaeology, and architecture – in the attempt to identifyearly modern strategies of recovering lost Rome. Many books have been written onantiquity in the Renaissance, but this book defines an antiquity that is particularlyBaroque.

2016 253 x 177 mm 326pp 100 b/w illus. 8 colour illus.

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