Parution : Rachel Carlisle, “Picturing German Antiquity in the Age of Print. Art, Archaeology, and the Style All’Antica in Early Modern Augsburg”, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2024
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...