Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance CultureSome of the most famous artworks of all time - statues like the 'Apollo Belvedere' and the 'Laocoön' - lay underground, forgotten, for more than a thousand years. Their rediscovery beneath Rome in the fifteenth century launched a thrilling archaeological adventure that unearthed thousands of late antique objects, from grand three-dimensional masterpieces to fragments of sculpted bodies. In this book, Leonard Barkan tells the full cultural story of the first emergence into daylight of antiquity, almost literally, in the flesh. As discovery and rebirth became literal daily narratives, Barkan shows, Renaissance conceptions of art, art history, aesthetics, and historiography were transformed. |
Contents
DISCOVERIES | xxxiv |
Greeks Bearing Gifts | xxxiv |
Vertical History | 17 |
Findings and Losses | 26 |
Romes Other Population | 42 |
HISTORIES | 65 |
The Natural History of Art | 66 |
Mimetic Narratives | 80 |
RECONSTRUCTIONS | 209 |
Pasquino Disfigures and Redressed | 210 |
Narrative and the Eye of the Beholder | 231 |
In Bed with Polyclitus | 247 |
ARTISTS | 271 |
Original Imitation | 273 |
The Archaeology of the Artist | 289 |
Disegno and Paragone | 304 |
Art in the Key of Myth | 89 |
Certain Antiquities Cited by Pliny | 105 |
FRAGMENTS | 119 |
Not a History but an Autopsy | 120 |
Marginal Bodies | 136 |
Impersonations | 158 |
Statues Fixed and Unfixed | 173 |
The Rhetoric of Draughtsmanship | 319 |
Good Marble Bad Marble | 330 |
Notes | 339 |
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Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance ... Leonard Barkan No preview available - 1999 |
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Page xxviii - Ces vieux palais, ces vieux arcz que tu vois, Et ces vieux murs, c'est ce que Rome on nomme.
Page xxviii - Thou stranger, which for Rome in Rome here seekest, And nought of Rome in Rome perceivst at all, These same olde walls, olde arches, which thou seest, Olde palaces, is that which Rome men call.
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