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The Seven Ancient Wonders in the Early Modern World (Hardcover)
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The Seven Ancient Wonders in the Early Modern World (Hardcover)
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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World have had a lasting impact
upon the intellectual landscape of the post-classical world. As
well as provoking historical debate and reflection, they have
proved an enduring yardstick by which succeeding generations have
measured the architectural and cultural accomplishments of their
own eras. Focusing particularly upon the Renaissance and Baroque
periods, this book looks at how the Wonders of the World were
represented in art, architecture and sculpture, and the ways that
European courts could evoke them as a useful image of power. Within
this artistic culture, special attention is paid to the recreations
and constructions generated between the fifteenth and eighteenth
centuries in the sphere of ephemeral art, especially those linked
to court celebrations in the principal European states. This
approach provides a framework to analyse and evaluate the claims of
other European Renaissance and Baroque architecture to Wonder
status, an approach bolstered by the use of the Palace of El
Escorial as a case study of a modern 'Eighth Wonder'.
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