Unearthing the past : archaeology and aesthetics in the making of Renaissance culture / Leonard Barkan.

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Barkan, Leonard.

Title & Author:

Unearthing the past : archaeology and aesthetics in the making of Renaissance culture / Leonard Barkan.

Publication:

Description:

xxxiii, 428 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Discoveries -- Greeks bearing gifts -- Vertical history -- Findings and losses -- Rome's other population -- 2. Histories -- The natural history of art -- Mimetic narratives -- Art in the key of myth -- "Certain antiquities cited by Pliny" -- 3. Fragments -- Not a history but an autopsy -- Marginal bodies -- Impersonations -- Statues fixed and unfixed -- 4. Reconstructions -- Pasquino disfigured and redressed -- Narrative and the eye of the beholder -- In bed with Polyclitus -- 5. Artists -- Original imitation -- The archaeology of the artist -- Disegno and Paragone -- The rhetoric of draughtsmanship -- Good marble, bad marble.

Summary:

"Employing a variety of interdisciplinary approaches, from Warburg to Foucault, from documentary history to cultural studies, the author probes the impact of archaeological finds on renaissance consciousnesses. He takes us on an extraordinary intellectual tour that encompasses the rebirth of art history as rediscovered objects confirmed or refuted the written records of antiquity. The result was the reconstruction of history as discursive systems were devised to weave the past into the present and, ultimately, the reconstruction of Renaissance art itself."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0300076770 (alk. paper)
9780300076776 (alk. paper)
0300089112
9780300089110

Subject:

Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475-1564
Bandinelli, Baccio 1493-1560
Sculpture, Classical.
Sculpture, Classical Reproduction.
Art, Renaissance Classical influences.
Classical antiquities in art.
Sculpture antique.
Sculpture antique Reproduction.
Art de la Renaissance Influence ancienne.
Antiquités gréco-romaines dans l'art.
Antike
Kunst
Plastik
Renaissance
Rezeption
Archeologische vondsten.
Classicisme.
Esthetica.
Italien
Vatikanpalast Cortile del Belvedere

Holdings:

Location: Library main 206871
Call No.: NB85 .B37 1999
Status: Available

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