Empire without end
Subtitle: antiquities collections in Renaissance Rome, c. 1350-1527
By: Kathleen Christian.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780300154214
Subjects: Art, Roman -- Collectors and collecting -- Italy -- Rome; Classical antiquities -- Collectors and collecting -- Italy -- Rome; Rome (Italy) -- Antiquities; Rome (Italy) -- Civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Antiquity as example: Rome in the era of Petrarch and Cola di Rienzo; title: The poetics of the collection: Cardinal Prospero Colonna's "Gardens of Maecenas"; title: Fictive genealogies and ancestral collections in fifteenth-century Rome; title: The virtues of the papal collector: Paul II and Sixtus IV; title: Pomponio Leto and the academic garden; title: The era of collecting, 1480-1527; title: Epilogue: the Sack of Rome; title: Catalogue: collections in Roman houses and vigne before 1527.