Picturing German Antiquity in the Age of Print
Title
Picturing German Antiquity in the Age of Print
Subtitle
Art, Archaeology, and the Style All’Antica in Early Modern Augsburg
Price
€ 129,00 excl. VAT
ISBN
9789048558896
Format
Hardback
Number of pages
294
Language
English
Publication date
Dimensions
17 x 24 cm
Table of Contents
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List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: A “Renaissance” in Early Modern Augsburg
Part 1: Documenting Evidence
Chapter 1: Local Antiquities and the Romanae Vetustatis Fragmenta
Chapter 2: Ancient Coins, Printed Portraits, and the Idea of Authenticity
Part 2: Borrowing Sources
Chapter 3: Transalpine Exchange, the Welsch, and the Deutsch
Chapter 4: Archaeology of the Printed Page
Part 3: Picturing a Local Past
Chapter 5: Locating Antiquity in the German Landscape
Chapter 6: Architecture All’antica
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Rachel Carlisle

Picturing German Antiquity in the Age of Print

Art, Archaeology, and the Style All’Antica in Early Modern Augsburg

Picturing German Antiquity in the Age of Print: Art, Archaeology, and the Style All’antica in Early Modern Augsburg examines the central role of print to local antiquarian pursuits and generation of a style all’antica in early sixteenth-century Augsburg, Germany. Working in the shadow of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, Augsburg’s leading patrons, including humanist Konrad Peutinger and the mercantile Fugger family, documented local antiquities and commissioned new works of classicizing art and architecture, visually asserting a genuine, unbroken lineage to the city’s past.

This study challenges earlier narratives by arguing that Augsburg’s artists and printers did not directly copy Italian Renaissance models but instead manipulated the imported visual vocabulary according to local concerns. The book brings together scholarly discourses on transalpine exchange, scientific advancements in printmaking, and reception of antiquity north of the Alps to offer a new understanding of art in early modern Augsburg and northern Europe at large.
Author

Rachel Carlisle

Rachel M. Carlisle is Lecturer in Art History at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Her research interests include transalpine exchanges, patronage and collecting practices, the reception of antiquity during the early modern period, and development of print technologies.