Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9789048558896 |
| ISBN10: | 9048558891 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 286 pages |
| Size: | 240x170 mm |
| Weight: | 571 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 94 Illustrations, black & white; 29 Illustrations, color |
| 667 |
Category:
Picturing German Antiquity in the Age of Print
Art, Archaeology, and the Style All?Antica in Early Modern Augsburg
Series:
Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700;
60;
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Date of Publication: 2 December 2024
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Long description:
Picturing German Antiquity in the Age of Print: Art, Archaeology, and the Style All?antica in Early Modern Augsburg examines the central role of print to local antiquarian pursuits and generation of a style all?antica in early sixteenth-century Augsburg, Germany. Working in the shadow of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, Augsburg?s leading patrons, including humanist Konrad Peutinger and the mercantile Fugger family, documented local antiquities and commissioned new works of classicizing art and architecture, visually asserting a genuine, unbroken lineage to the city?s past.
This study challenges earlier narratives by arguing that Augsburg?s artists and printers did not directly copy Italian Renaissance models but instead manipulated the imported visual vocabulary according to local concerns. The book brings together scholarly discourses on transalpine exchange, scientific advancements in printmaking, and reception of antiquity north of the Alps to offer a new understanding of art in early modern Augsburg and northern Europe at large.
This study challenges earlier narratives by arguing that Augsburg?s artists and printers did not directly copy Italian Renaissance models but instead manipulated the imported visual vocabulary according to local concerns. The book brings together scholarly discourses on transalpine exchange, scientific advancements in printmaking, and reception of antiquity north of the Alps to offer a new understanding of art in early modern Augsburg and northern Europe at large.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: A ?Renaissance? in Early Modern Augsburg
Part 1: Documenting Evidence
Chapter 1: Local Antiquities and the Romanae Vetustatis Fragmenta
Chapter 2: Ancient Coins, Printed Portraits, and the Idea of Authenticity
Part 2: Borrowing Sources
Chapter 3: Transalpine Exchange, the Welsch, and the Deutsch
Chapter 4: Archaeology of the Printed Page
Part 3: Picturing a Local Past
Chapter 5: Locating Antiquity in the German Landscape
Chapter 6: Architecture All?antica
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
Introduction: A ?Renaissance? in Early Modern Augsburg
Part 1: Documenting Evidence
Chapter 1: Local Antiquities and the Romanae Vetustatis Fragmenta
Chapter 2: Ancient Coins, Printed Portraits, and the Idea of Authenticity
Part 2: Borrowing Sources
Chapter 3: Transalpine Exchange, the Welsch, and the Deutsch
Chapter 4: Archaeology of the Printed Page
Part 3: Picturing a Local Past
Chapter 5: Locating Antiquity in the German Landscape
Chapter 6: Architecture All?antica
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
