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Roman Antiquities in Renaissance France, 1515-65 (Paperback)
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Roman Antiquities in Renaissance France, 1515-65 (Paperback)
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Making use of new and original material based on firsthand sources,
this book interrogates the vogue for collecting, discussing,
depicting, and putting to political and cultural use Roman
antiquities in the French Renaissance. It surveys a range of
activity from the labours of collectors and patrons to royal
entries, considers attacks on the craze for the antique, and sets
literary instances among a much wider spectrum of artistic
endeavour. While Renaissance collecting and antiquarianism have
certainly been the object of critical scrutiny, this study brings
disparate fields into a single focus; and it examines not only
areas of antiquarian expertise and interest (such as statues,
coins, and books), but also important individual historical
figures. The opening chapters deal with the role played in Rome by
French ambassadors, who sent back antiques to collectors at court,
who in the person of Jean Du Bellay, undertook excavations, and
assembled a major personal collection, which was housed in a new
villa in the ruined Baths of Diocletian. The volume includes a
valuable appendix, which presents in transcription catalogues of
the collections of Cardinal Jean du Bellay.
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