Antiquity and Its Interpreters

by Edited by Alina Payne , Ann Kuttner , Rebekah Smick

• ISBN13: 9780521594004
• ISBN10: 0521594006
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-02-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Antiquity and its Interpreters examines how the physical and textual remains of the ancient Romans were viewed and received by writers, artists, and cultural makers of early modern Italy. This volume reconsiders the complex relationship between the two cultures, in light of recent scholarship in the field a new appreciation and awareness of the act of history writing itself. The case studies analyze specific texts, the archaeological projects that made 'antiquity' available, the revival of art history and theory, and the appropriation of antiquities to serve social ideologies, among other topics. Demonstrating that the antique model was itself an artful contruct, Antiquity and its Interpretors shows that the originality of Renaissance culture owed as much to ignorance about antiquity as to an understanding of it. It also provides a synthesis of seminal work that recognizes the reciprocal relationship of the Renaissance to Antiquity.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
List of Contributors	xiii
Preface and Acknowledgments	xv
Introduction	1	(8)
Alina Payne
Ann Kuttner
Rebekah Smick
PART I: INHABITING HISTORY
Self-Definition
Imitation	9	(8)
James Ackerman
Petrarch and the Broken City	17	(10)
David Galbraith
Acquiring a Classical Past: Historical Appropriation in Renaissance Venice	27	(13)
Patricia Fortini Brown
Ordering History with Style: Giorgio Vasari on the Art of History	40	(17)
Philip Sohm
Continuities
Renaissance and Real Estate: The Medieval Afterlife of the ``Temple of Diana'' in Nimes	57	(13)
Sheila Bonde
Imaginary Architecture and Antiquity: The Fountain of Venus in Francesco Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili	70	(13)
Martine Furno
Antiquity Consumed: Transformations at San Marco, Venice	83	(16)
Marina Belozerskaya
Kenneth Lapatin
PART II: CULTURE PURSUED
Transmission of Meaning
The Heritage of Zeuxis: Painting, Rhetoric, and History	99	(11)
Leonard Barkan
Looking at Venus and Ganymede Anew: Problems and Paradoxes in the Relations among Neoplatonic Writing and Renaissance Art	110	(16)
Julia Branna Perlman
Imitation, Innovation, and Renovation in the Counter-Reformation: Landscapes all' antica in the Vatican Tower of the Winds	126	(19)
Nicola Courtright
The (Re) Emergence of the Aesthetic
Ut poesis architectura: Tectonics and Poetics in Architectural Criticism circa 1570	145	(14)
Alina A. Payne
Vivid Thinking: Word and Image in Descriptive Techniques of the Renaissance	159	(15)
Rebekah Smick
The Body and Antiquity in Alberti's Art Theoretical Writings	174	(17)
Gerhard Wolf
Patterns of Transumption in Renaissance Architectural Theory	191	(8)
Christof Thoenes
PART III: CULTURE PRODUCED
Textual Exegesis
Pliny's Laocoon?	199	(18)
Michael Koortbojian
Symmetry and Eurythmy at the Pantheon: The Fate of Bernini's Perceptions from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day	217	(12)
T. A. Marder
Reconstructions
Appropriation Contexts: Decor, Furor Bacchicus, Convivium	229	(15)
Phyllis Pray Bober
Si come dice Vetruvio: Images of Antiquity in Early Renaissance Theory of Architecture	244	(17)
Richard J. Betts
PART IV: CODA
Antiquity and the Renaissance from the Outside
Remaking Antiquity in Eighteenth-Century Seville	261	(8)
Catherine Wilkinson Zerner
Winckelmann and Warburg: Contrasting Attitudes toward the Instrumental Authority of Ancient Art	269	(7)
Richard Brilliant
Figural Speculations	276	(9)
Michael Ann Holly
Writing History, Viewing Art: The Question of the Humanist's Eye	285	(12)
Carl Goldstein
List of Abbreviations	297	(2)
Selected Bibliography	299	(20)
Index	319	(42)