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In Renaissance Rome, ancient ruins were preserved as often as they were mined for their materials. Although the question of what to preserve and how continued to be subject to debate, preservation acquired renewed force and urgency in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries as the new papal capital rose upon the ruins of the ancient city. Preservation practices became more focused and effective in Renaissance Rome than ever before.
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David Karmon is Assistant Professor of Art History, College of the Holy Cross.
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"...Karmon sheds light on how preservation and restoration have become separate practices in modern culture, where...[early modern] humanists wove them together. This distinction, a distorting lens long depended upon by historians...deserves close attention from architects, so often called upon to confront its implications." --Casabella
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0199766894
- ISBN 13 9780199766895
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages336
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