Egyptian Renaissance The Afterlife of Ancient Egypt in Early Modern Italy

Name: Egyptian Renaissance The Afterlife of Ancient Egypt in Early Modern Italy
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ISBN: 9780226128931

ISBN-10: 0226128938

ISBN-13: 9780226128931

Edition: 2007

Authors: Brian Curran

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Fascination with ancient Egypt is a recurring theme in Western culture, and here Brian Curran uncovers its deep roots in the Italian Renaissance, which embraced not only classical art and literature but also a variety of other cultures that modern readers don't tend to associate with early modern Italy. Patrons, artists, and spectators of the period were particularly drawn, Curran shows, to Egyptian antiquity and its artifacts, many of which found their way to Italy in Roman times and exerted an influence every bit as powerful as that of their more familiar Greek and Roman counterparts. Curran vividly recreates this first wave of European Egyptomania with insightful interpretations of the…

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List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/1/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 428
Size: 8.50" wide x 11.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 3.850
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgements


Introduction: The Egyptian Renaissance



The Memory of Egypt



Egyptian Monuments from Antiquity to the Middle Ages



Huamnists and Heiroglyphs



Egyptian Monuments for Renaissance Princes



Sacred Writing: from Hermes Trismegistus to Heiroglyphic Epigraphy



Egyptian Ancestors: Alxander VI and Annius of Viterbo



Egypt in Venice




Cleopatra and the Second Julius: Egyptology and the Dream of Empire in High Renaissance Rome



Egyptian Lives (and Afterlives) in the Rome of Medici Popes



Heiroglyphic Studies in the High Renaissance



The Scepter of Osiris: Egyptian Mysteries in the Missal of Carinal Pompeo



Conclusion: The Egyptian in the Mirror


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index