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The Art of Discovery - Digging into the Past in Renaissance Europe (Hardcover)
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The Art of Discovery - Digging into the Past in Renaissance Europe (Hardcover)
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A panoramic history of the antiquarians whose discoveries
transformed Renaissance culture and gave rise to new forms of art
and knowledge In the early fifteenth century, a casket containing
the remains of the Roman historian Livy was unearthed at a
Benedictine abbey in Padua. The find was greeted with the same
enthusiasm as the bones of a Christian saint, and established a
pattern that antiquarians would follow for centuries to come. The
Art of Discovery tells the stories of the Renaissance antiquarians
who turned material remains of the ancient world into sources for
scholars and artists, inspirations for palaces and churches, and
objects of pilgrimage and devotion. Maren Elisabeth Schwab and
Anthony Grafton bring to life some of the most spectacular finds of
the age, such as Nero's Golden House and the wooden placard that
was supposedly nailed to the True Cross. They take readers into
basements, caves, and cisterns, explaining how digs were undertaken
and shedding light on the methods antiquarians-and the alchemists
and craftspeople they consulted-used to interpret them. What
emerges is not an origin story for modern archaeology or art
history but rather an account of how early modern artisanal skills
and technical expertise were used to create new knowledge about the
past and inspire new forms of art, scholarship, and devotion in the
present. The Art of Discovery challenges the notion that
Renaissance antiquarianism was strictly a secular enterprise,
revealing how the rediscovery of Christian relics and the bones of
martyrs helped give rise to highly interdisciplinary ways of
examining and authenticating objects of all kinds.
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