Place of the Antique in Early Modern Europe

Rowland Ingrid D.

A scholar's desk, a warlord's castle, a pope's altar, the mouth of a volcano: in the minds of early modern Europeans, all evoked memories of ancient times, from Egyptian pharaohs to Roman emperors. The essays in this catalog explore the influence of antiquity on a broad spectrum of artistic production in Europe, from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. They include investigations of proto-scientific imagery, Ovidian myth, allegorical devices, the papal banquet, and the growing importance of Greece to understandings of the ancient world. Together, these essays reveal much about the continual remaking of the antique in the visual culture of Europe.

Contents:

Foreword and Acknowledgments
Color Plates
The Place of Antiquity – Ingrid D. Rowland
Transformations of the Antique: Metamorphic Representation in the Renaissance – Allie Terry
Allegory – Noriko Matsubara
Babies, Banquets, and Bacchanals – Mario Pereira
Siting the Antique in Nature, the Academy, and Antiquarian Travel – Craig Hanson
Appendix: Supplementary Materials

About the Author

Ingrid D. Rowland lives in Rome, where she teaches at the University of Notre Dame's School of Architecture, and is a regular essayist for the New York Review of Books and the New Republic. She is the author of many books, including "The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery", also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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