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Furlotti, Barbara

 
9781606065914: Antiquities in Motion: From Excavation Sites to Renaissance Collections
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ISBN 10 : 1606065912 ISBN 13 : 9781606065914
Editeur : Getty Publications, 2019

Synopsis

An exciting new approach to understanding the trade of antiquities in early modern Rome traces the journey of objects from discovery to display.

Barbara Furlotti presents a dynamic interpretation of the early modern market for antiquities, relying on the innovative notion of archaeological finds as mobile items. She reconstructs the journey of ancient objects from digging sites to venues where they were sold, such as Roman marketplaces and antiquarians' storage spaces; to sculptors' workshops, where they were restored; and to Italian and other European collections, where they arrived after complicated and costly travel over land and sea. She shifts the attention from collectors to peasants with shovels, dealers and middlemen, and restorers who unearthed, cleaned up, and repaired or remade objects, recuperating the roles these actors played in Rome's socioeconomic structure.

Furlotti also examines the changes in economic value, meaning, and appearance that antiquities underwent as they moved throughout their journeys and as they reached the locations in which they were displayed. Drawing on vast unpublished archival material, she offers answers to novel questions: How were antiquities excavated? How and where were they traded? How were laws about the ownership of ancient finds made, followed, and evaded?

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À propos de l'auteur

Barbara Furlotti is associate lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. She authored A Renaissance Baron and His Possessions: Paolo Giordano I Orsini, Duke of Bracciano (1541-1585) and contributed to Display of Art in the Roman Palace, 1550 1750 (Getty Publications, 2014).

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Éditeur
Getty Publications
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1606065912
ISBN 13 
9781606065914
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
292
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