Picturing German Antiquity in the Age of Print : Art, Archaeology, and the Style All'Antica in Early Modern Augsburg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carlisle, Rachel.

Series:

Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700 Series

Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700 Series ; v.60

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Germany--Augsburg--History--16th century.

Art.

Art, Classical--Influence.

Art, Classical.

Prints--Germany--Augsburg--Technique--History--16th century.

Prints.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Picturing German Antiquity in the Age of Print: Art, Archaeology, and the Style All’antica in Early Modern Augsburg examines the central role of print to local antiquarian pursuits and generation of a style all’antica in early sixteenth-century Augsburg, Germany. Working in the shadow of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, Augsburg’s leading patrons, including humanist Konrad Peutinger and the mercantile Fugger family, documented local antiquities and commissioned new works of classicizing art and architecture, visually asserting a genuine, unbroken lineage to the city’s past. This study challenges earlier narratives by arguing that Augsburg’s artists and printers did not directly copy Italian Renaissance models but instead manipulated the imported visual vocabulary according to local concerns. The book brings together scholarly discourses on transalpine exchange, scientific advancements in printmaking, and reception of antiquity north of the Alps to offer a new understanding of art in early modern Augsburg and northern Europe at large.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: A “Renaissance” in Early Modern Augsburg

Part 1 Documenting Evidence

1. Local Antiquities and the Romanae Vetustatis Fragmenta

2. Ancient Coins, Printed Portraits, and the Idea of Authenticity

Part 2 Borrowing Sources

3. Transalpine Exchange, the Welsch, and the Deutsch

4. Archaeology of the Printed Page

Part 3 Picturing a Local Past

5. Locating Antiquity in the German Landscape

6. Architecture All’antica

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-003-70140-X

90-485-5890-5

9781003701408

OCLC:

1491309502