Andrea Fulvio's Illustrium Imagines and the Beginnings of Classical Archaeology (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004288126)

Andrea Fulvio's Illustrium imagines and the Beginnings of Classical Archaeology is a study of the book recognized by contemporaries as the first attempt (1517) to publish artifacts from Classical Antiquity in the form of a chronology of portraits appearing on coins. By studying correspondences between the illustrated coins and genuine, ancient coins, Madigan parses Fulvio's methodology, showing how he attempted to exploit coins as historical documents. Situated within humanist literary and historical studies of ancient Rome, his numismatic project required visual artists closely to study and assimilate the conventions of ancient portraiture. The Illustrium imagines exemplifies the range and complexity of early modern responses to ancient artifacts.

Author: Brian Madigan
ISBN-10: 9004288120
ISBN-13: 9789004288126
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 10/21/2022
Pages: 236
Format: Hardcover