The quest for an appropriate past in literature, art and architecture
Title:
The quest for an appropriate past in literature, art and architecture
Intersections ;
Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ;
Author:
Enenkel, K. A. E., editor.
ISBN:
9789004377684
Physical Description:
xxxiii, 784 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Series:
Intersections ; 60
Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 60.
Contents:
Claiming and contesting Trojan ancestry on both sides of the Bosporus -- epic answers to an ethnographic dispute in Quattrocento humanist poetry / Christian Peters -- Architecture, poetry and law: the amphitheatre of capua and the new works sponsored by the local elite / Bianca De Divitiis -- A city in quest of an appropriate antiquity: the arena of verona and its influence on architectural theory in the early modern era / Hubertus Gunther -- Tradition and originality in Raphael: the stanza della segnatura, the middle ages and local traditions / David Rijser -- An appropriate past for renaissance Portugal: Andre De Resende and the city of Evora / Nuno Senos -- The construction of a national past in the Bella Britannica by Humbert of Montmoret (d. ca. 1525) / Thomas Haye -- Parody and appropriation of the past in the Grandes Chroniques Gargantuines and in Rabelais's Pantagruel (1532) / Paul J. Smith -- Antiquity and modernity: Sixteenth- to Eighteenth-Century French architecture / Frederique Lemerle -- The roots of Philibert de L'orme: antiquity, medieval art, and early christian architecture / Yves Pauwels -- From Chivalric family tree to "national" gallery: the portrait series of the Counts of Holland, ca. 1490-1650 / Karl Enenkel -- Dousa's medieval tournaments: chivalry enters the age of humanism? / Coen Maas -- Living as befits a knight: new castles in Seventeenth-Century Holland / Konrad Ottenheym -- "Non Erubescat Hollandia": classical embarrassment of riches and the construction of local history in Hadrianus Junius' Batavia / Coen Maas -- Epigraphy and blurring senses of the past in early modern travelling men of letters: the case of Arnoldus Buchelius / Harald Hendrix VII -- "Sine amore, sine odio partium": Nicolaus Burgundius' Historia Belgica (1629) and his tacitean quest for an appropriate past / Marc Laureys -- The mediaeval prestige of Dutch cities / Konrad Ottenheym -- An appropriated history: the case of the Amsterdam town hall (1648-1667) / Pieter Vlaardingerbroek -- Germany's glory, past and present: Konrad Peutinger's sermones convivales de mirandis germanie antiquitatibus and antiquarian philology / Christoph Pieper -- Translating the past: local romanesque architecture in Germany and its Fifteenth-Century reinterpretation / Stephan Hoppe -- The Babylonian origins of trier / Hubertus Gunther -- History and architecture in pursuit of a Gothic heritage / Kristoffer Neville Early modern conceptualizations of Medieval history and their impact on residential architecture in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth / Barbara Arciszewska -- Writing about Romano-British architecture in the late Seventeenth Century / Matthew Walker -- Preserving the nation's zeal: church buildings and English Christian history in Stuart England / Anne-Francoise Morel -- "A great insight into antiquity": Jacob Bryant and Jeremiah Milles and the authenticity of the poems of Thomas Rowley / Bernd Roling -- Phoenician Ireland: Charles Vallancey (1725-1812) and the oriental roots of Celtic culture / Bernd Roling.
Abstract:
This volume explores the various strategies by which appropriate pasts were construed in scholarship, literature, art, and architecture in order to create "national", regional, or local identities in late medieval and early modern Europe. Because authority was based on lineage, political and territorial claims were underpinned by historical arguments, either true or otherwise. Literature, scholarship, art, and architecture were pivotal media that were used to give evidence of the impressive old lineage of states, regions, or families. These claims were related not only to classical antiquity but also to other periods that were regarded as antiquities, such as the Middle Ages, especially the chivalric age. The authors of this volume analyse these intriguing early modern constructions of "antiquity" and investigate the ways in which they were applied in political, intellectual and artistic contexts in the period of 1400-1700.
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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