TY  - BOOK
AU  - Christian,Kathleen
TI  - Empire without end: antiquities collections in Renaissance Rome, c. 1350-1527 
SN  - 9780300154214 (cl : alk. paper)
AV  - N5760 .C549 2010 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Art, Roman
KW  - Collectors and collecting
KW  - Italy
KW  - Rome
KW  - Classical antiquities
KW  - Rome (Italy)
KW  - Antiquities
KW  - Civilization
N1  - 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
ER  -