Victor Plahte Tschudi: 1 book
Baroque Antiquity
Archaeological Imagination in Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Why were seventeenth-century antiquarians so spectacularly wrong? Even if they knew what ancient monuments looked like, they deliberately distorted the representation of them in print. Deciphering the printed reconstructions of Giacomo Lauro and Athanasius Kircher, this pioneering study uncovers an...
