Empire without end : antiquities collections in Renaissance Rome, c. 1350-1527 /

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Author / Creator:	Christian, Kathleen (Kathleen Wren), 1971-
Imprint:	New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2010.
Description:	ix, 440 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 27 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Art, Roman -- Collectors and collecting -- Italy -- Rome. Classical antiquities -- Collectors and collecting -- Italy -- Rome. Antiquities. Civilization. Classical antiquities -- Collectors and collecting. Rome (Italy) -- Antiquities. Rome (Italy) -- Civilization. Italy -- Rome.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8148942

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ISBN:	9780300154214 (cl : alk. paper) 0300154216 (cl : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	In the early fifteenth century, when Romans discovered ancient marble sculptures and inscriptions in the ruins, they often melted them into mortar. A hundred years later, however, antique marbles had assumed their familiar role as works of art displayed in private collections. Many of these collections, especially the Vatican Belvedere, are well known to art historians and archaeologists. Yet discussions of antiquities collecting in Rome too often begin with the Belvedere, that is, only after it was a widespread practice. In this important book, the author steps back to examine the "long" fifteenth century, a critical period in the history of antiquities collecting that has received scant attention. Kathleen Wren Christian examines shifts in the response of artists and writers to spectacular archaeological discoveries and the new role of collecting antiquities in the public life of Roman elites.

Table of Contents:

Antiquity as example: Rome in the time of Petrarch and Cola di Rienzo
The poetics of the collection: Cardinal Prospero Colonna's "Gardens of Maecenas"
Fictive genealogies and ancestral collections in fifteenth-century Rome
The virtues of the papal collector: Paul II and Sixtus IV
Pomponio Leto and the academic garden
The era of collecting, 1480-1527
Epilogue: the Sack of Rome and the hanging garden of Cardinal Andrea della Valle
Catalogue of the collections in Roman houses and vigne before 1527.

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