Empire without end :

Christian, Kathleen 1971-

Empire without end : antiquities collections in Renaissance Rome, c. 1350-1527 / Kathleen Wren Christian. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c2010. - ix, 440 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 27 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-423) and index.

Antiquity as example: Rome in the era of Petrarch and Cola di Rienzo -- The poetics of the collection: Cardinal Prospero Colonna's "Gardens of Maecenas" -- Fictive genealogies and ancestral collections in fifteenth-century Rome -- The virtues of the papal collector: Paul II and Sixtus IV -- Pomponio Leto and the academic garden -- The era of collecting, 1480-1527 -- Epilogue: the Sack of Rome -- Catalogue: collections in Roman houses and vigne before 1527.

9780300154214 (cl : alk. paper)

2009054225


Art, Roman--Collectors and collecting--Italy--Rome.
Classical antiquities--Collectors and collecting--Italy--Rome.


Rome (Italy)--Antiquities.
Rome (Italy)--Civilization.

N5760 .C549 2010
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