Cambridge University PressEdition: Reissue, 3/6/2012EAN 9781107403857, ISBN10: 1107403855Paperback, 342 pages, 28 x 21 x 2 cmLanguage: EnglishThis book was first published in 2000. Antiquity and its Interpreters examines how the physical and textual remains of the ancient Romans were viewed and received by writers, artists, architects, and cultural makers of early modern Italy. The importance of antiquity in the Renaissance has long been acknowledged, but this volume reconsiders the complex relationship between the two cultures in light of recent scholarship in the field and a new appreciation and awareness of the act of history writing itself. The case studies analyze specific texts, the archaeological projects that made 'antiquity' available, the revival of art history and theory, the appropriation of antiquities to serve social ideologies, and the reception of this cultural phenomenon in modern historiography, among other topics. Demonstrating that the antique model was itself an artful construct, Antiquity and its Interpreters shows that the originality of Renaissance culture owed as much to ignorance about antiquity as to an understanding of it. It also provides a synthesis of seminal work that recognizes the reciprocal relationship of the Renaissance to antiquity.IntroductionPart I. Inhabiting History1. Historical self-definition1.1 Imitation James Ackerman1.2 P. Petrarch and the broken city David Galbraith1.3 Acquiring a classical pasthistorical appropriation in Renaissance Venice Patricia Fortini Brown1.4 Ordering history and styleGeorgio Vasari on the art of history Philip Sohm2. Historical continuities2.1 Renaissance and real estatethe medieval afterlife of the Temple of Diana in Nimes Sheila Bonde2.2 Imaginary architecture and antiquitythe fountain of Venus in Francesco Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili Martine Furno II2.3 Antiquity consumedtransformations at San Marco, Venice Marina Belozerskaya and Kenneth LapatinPart II. Cultural Pursued3. The heritage of Zeuxispainting, rhetoric and history Leonard Barkan3.1 Mind's passionconjugating rationality and sensuality in neo-platonic interpretations of Italian Renaissance art Julia Branna Perlman3.2 The transformation of ancient landscape through the ideology of Christian reform Nicola Courtright4. The (re)emergence of the aesthetic4.1 Ut poesis architecturaGherardo Spini and Italian archietectural criticism circa 1570 Alina Payne4.2 Viewing the art of Michelangelovisual metaphor in the art critical tradition of the Renaissance Rebekah Smick4.3 The body and antiquity in Alberti's art theoretical writings Gerhard Wolf4.4 Patterns of transumption in Renaissance architectural theory Christof ThoenesPart III. Culture Produced5. Textual exegesis5.1 Pliny's laocoon? Michael Koortbojian5.2 Symmetry and eurythmyclassical theory in architecture from Vitruvius to Bernini to the present day Tod Marder6. Appropriation contextsdecor, Furor Bacchicus, Convivium Phyllis Pray Bober6.1 Si come dice Vetruvioimages of antiquity in early Renaissance theory of architecture Richard BettsPart IV. Coda7. Antiquity and the Renaissance from the outside7.1 Remaking antiquity in eighteenth-century Seville Catherine Wilkinson Zerner7.2 Winckelmann and Warburgcontrasting attitutudes toward the instrumental authority of ancient art Richard Brilliant7.3 Figural speculations Michael Ann Holly7.4 Writing history, viewing artthe question of the humanist's eye Carl Goldstein.
