Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture

Barkan, Leonard

ISBN 10: 0300089112 / ISBN 13: 9780300089110

Published by Yale University Press, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300089112
• ISBN 13: 9780300089110
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

In this rich and engaging book, Leonard Barkan tells the full cultural story of the emergence into daylight of the artworks of antiquity that had lain beneath Roman ground for more than a thousand years. As discovery and rebirth became literal daily narratives in the fifteenth century, Barkan shows, Renaissance conceptions of art, art history, aesthetics, and historiography were transformed.

About the Author

Leonard Barkan is Samuel Rudin University Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English and Fine Arts at New York University. He is also director of the New York Institute for the Humanities. His carlier book, The Gods Made Flesh: Metamorphosis and the Pursuit of Paganism (ISBN 0 300 03561 6, 40.00), published by Yale University Press, won the Christian Gauss Award.