Empire without end : antiquities collections in Renaissance Rome, c. 1350-1527 / Kathleen Wren Christian.

By:

Christian, Kathleen (Kathleen Wren), 1971-

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TextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2010.Description: ix, 440 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 27 cmISBN:

9780300154214 (cl : alk. paper)

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LOC classification:

N5760 .C549 2010

Contents:

Antiquity as example: Rome in the era of Petrarch and Cola di Rienzo -- The poetics of the collection: Cardinal Prospero Colonna's "Gardens of Maecenas" -- Fictive genealogies and ancestral collections in fifteenth-century Rome -- The virtues of the papal collector: Paul II and Sixtus IV -- Pomponio Leto and the academic garden -- The era of collecting, 1480-1527 -- Epilogue: the Sack of Rome -- Catalogue: collections in Roman houses and vigne before 1527.

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Cover image	Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Materials specified	Vol info	URL	Copy number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds	Item hold queue priority	Course reserves
	Hard Covered Materials	MACHAKOS UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Technical section				N5760 .C549 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below))					Available			29477

Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-423) and index.

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