The Art of Discovery: Digging Into the Past in Renaissance Europe

by Maren Elisabeth Schwab and Anthony Grafton

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691237166

ISBN13:9780691237169

Release Date:January 2025

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:328 Pages

Weight:0.92 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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