01804cam a2200301 a 4500 18839 18839 16037730 20170114095812.0 091230s2010 ctuab b 001 0 eng 2009054225 9780300154214 (cl : alk. paper) N5760 .C549 2010 Christian, Kathleen (Kathleen Wren), 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. Art, Roman Collectors and collecting Italy Rome. Classical antiquities Collectors and collecting Italy Rome. Rome (Italy) Antiquities. Rome (Italy) Civilization. lcc BOOKS N5760 .C549 2010 0 0 lcc 0 0 MUC MUC TECH 2017-01-14 Donation(BFA) 0 N5760 .C549 2010 29477 2018-07-18 2017-01-14 BOOKS