Discovery Of The Past
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The Discovery Of The Past
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Author : Alain Schnapp
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The Discovery Of The Past written by Alain Schnapp and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Antiquarians categories.
Every civilized society, beginning with that of the ancient Egyptians and Chinese, has entertained a passionate curiosity about its predecessors: we want to know about our past in order to understand and even manipulate our present. The means to that end is archaeology, whose history is the fascinating subject of The Discovery of the Past. Alain Schnapps' study is astonishing in the depth and breadth of its coverage. Beginning with the ancient Greek poet Hesiod and extending thought St. Augustine, Rabelais, Newton, and Thomas Jefferson, he shows that the history of archaeology is not one of uninterrupted progress, but of the rediscovery and reinterpretation -- often erratic -- of forgotten observations. The text is elegantly interwoven with illustrations and descriptions of objects surviving from antiquity, while extensive quotations from primary sources provide a fascinating insight into historical accounts. Contemporary depictions of ancient life, and incidents in its discovery, reveal the excitement of archaeological research.
Man S Discovery Of His Past
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Author : Robert F. Heizer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Man S Discovery Of His Past written by Robert F. Heizer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with categories.
Man S Discovery Of His Past
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
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Man S Discovery Of His Past
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Author : Robert Fleming Heizer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Man S Discovery Of His Past written by Robert Fleming Heizer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Archaeology categories.
Fossils The Discovery Of The Past
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Author : Stefano Piccini
language : it
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Fossils The Discovery Of The Past written by Stefano Piccini and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Science categories.
Discovery Of The Past
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Author : Rhoda A. Hendricks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Discovery Of The Past written by Rhoda A. Hendricks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Social Science categories.
The Art Of Discovery
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Author : Maren Elisabeth Schwab
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2022-11-29
The Art Of Discovery written by Maren Elisabeth Schwab and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-29 with History categories.
A panoramic history of the antiquarians whose discoveries transformed Renaissance culture and gave rise to new forms of art and knowledge In the early fifteenth century, a casket containing the remains of the Roman historian Livy was unearthed at a Benedictine abbey in Padua. The find was greeted with the same enthusiasm as the bones of a Christian saint, and established a pattern that antiquarians would follow for centuries to come. The Art of Discovery tells the stories of the Renaissance antiquarians who turned material remains of the ancient world into sources for scholars and artists, inspirations for palaces and churches, and objects of pilgrimage and devotion. Maren Elisabeth Schwab and Anthony Grafton bring to life some of the most spectacular finds of the age, such as Nero’s Golden House and the wooden placard that was supposedly nailed to the True Cross. They take readers into basements, caves, and cisterns, explaining how digs were undertaken and shedding light on the methods antiquarians—and the alchemists and craftspeople they consulted—used to interpret them. What emerges is not an origin story for modern archaeology or art history but rather an account of how early modern artisanal skills and technical expertise were used to create new knowledge about the past and inspire new forms of art, scholarship, and devotion in the present. The Art of Discovery challenges the notion that Renaissance antiquarianism was strictly a secular enterprise, revealing how the rediscovery of Christian relics and the bones of martyrs helped give rise to highly interdisciplinary ways of examining and authenticating objects of all kinds.
Antiquaries
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Author : Rosemary Sweet
language : en
Publisher: Continuum
Release Date : 2004-05-28
Antiquaries written by Rosemary Sweet and has been published by Continuum this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-05-28 with History categories.
Eighteenth-century Britain saw an explosion of interest in its own past, a past now expanded to include more than classical history and high politics. Antiquaries, men interested in all aspects of the past, added a distinctive new dimension to literature in Georgian Britain in their attempts to reconstruct and recover the past. Corresponding and publishing in an extended network, antiquaries worked at preserving and investigating records and physical remains in England, Scotland and Ireland. In doing so they laid solid foundations for all future study in British prehistory, archaeology and numismatics, and for local and national history as a whole. Naturally, they saw the past partly in their own image. While many antiquaries were better at fieldwork and recording than at synthesis, most were neither crabbed eccentrics nor dilettanti. At their best, as in the works of Richard Gough or William Stukeley, antiquaries set new standards of accuracy and perception in fields ranging from the study of the ancient Britons to that of medieval architecture. Antiquaries is the definitive account of a great historical enterprise.
Man S Discovery Of His Past Literary Landmarks In Archaeology
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Author : Robert Fleming 1915- Heizer
language : en
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
Release Date : 2021-09-09
Man S Discovery Of His Past Literary Landmarks In Archaeology written by Robert Fleming 1915- Heizer and has been published by Hassell Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-09 with categories.
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Indonesia
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Author : Pieter ker Keurs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Indonesia written by Pieter ker Keurs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Indonesia categories.