Empire without end : antiquities collections in Renaissance Rome, c. 1350-1527 / Kathleen Wren Christian.

By: Christian, Kathleen (Kathleen Wren), 1971-Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2010Description: ix, 440 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 27 cmISBN: 9780300154214 (cl : alk. paper)Subject(s): Art, Roman -- Collectors and collecting -- Italy -- Rome | Classical antiquities -- Collectors and collecting -- Italy -- Rome | Rome (Italy) -- Antiquities | Rome (Italy) -- CivilizationLOC classification: N5760 .C549 2010
Contents:
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.
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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.

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