Recreating Ancient History : Episodes from the Greek and Roman Past in the Arts and Literature of the Early Modern Period /
Enenkel, Karl A. E.
Recreating Ancient History : Episodes from the Greek and Roman Past in the Arts and Literature of the Early Modern Period / Episodes from the Greek and Roman Past in the Arts and Literature of the Early Modern Period Karl A. E. Enenkel, Jan de Jong, Jeanine de Landtsheer. - 1 online resource. - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495 . - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The papers in this volume offer examples of how historians, writers, playwrights, and painters in the early modern period used ancient history as a rich field of raw material that could be used, recycled, and adapted to new needs and purposes. They focused on classical antiquity as a source from which they could recreate the past as a way of understanding and legitimizing the present. The contributors to this volume have addressed a number of important, common issues that span a wide range of subjects from fifteenth-century Italian painting to the teaching of Greek history in eighteenth-century Germany. This volume is of interest for historians of the early modern period from all disciplines and for all those interested in the reception of classical antiquity. This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.
9789004496422 9780391041295
10.1163/9789004496422 DOI
Arts, Modern.
Civilization, Classical, in art.
History in art.
NX650
700
Recreating Ancient History : Episodes from the Greek and Roman Past in the Arts and Literature of the Early Modern Period / Episodes from the Greek and Roman Past in the Arts and Literature of the Early Modern Period Karl A. E. Enenkel, Jan de Jong, Jeanine de Landtsheer. - 1 online resource. - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495 . - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The papers in this volume offer examples of how historians, writers, playwrights, and painters in the early modern period used ancient history as a rich field of raw material that could be used, recycled, and adapted to new needs and purposes. They focused on classical antiquity as a source from which they could recreate the past as a way of understanding and legitimizing the present. The contributors to this volume have addressed a number of important, common issues that span a wide range of subjects from fifteenth-century Italian painting to the teaching of Greek history in eighteenth-century Germany. This volume is of interest for historians of the early modern period from all disciplines and for all those interested in the reception of classical antiquity. This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.
9789004496422 9780391041295
10.1163/9789004496422 DOI
Arts, Modern.
Civilization, Classical, in art.
History in art.
NX650
700