Recreating ancient history : episodes from the Greek and Roman past in the arts and literature of the Early Modern Period
This volume poses the question: how did scholars and artists in the early modern period represent, or rather, recreate (Greek and Roman) history? This work shows that ancient history was not just studied so as to reconstruct the past, it was used as a way of legitimizing the present.
xiii, 375 pages, 70 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
9789004120518, 9004120513
46640848
Preface1. The Representation of History in Artistic Theory in the Early Modern Period, Anton Boschloo2. Universals and Particulars. History Painting in the “Sala di Costantino” in the Vatican Palace, Jan L. de Jong3. Theatrum Hodiernae Vitae: Lipsius, Vaenius and the Rebellion of Civilis, Mark Morford4. Strange and Bewildering Antiquity: Lipsius’s Dialogue Saturnales sermones on Gladiatorial Games (1582), Karl Enenkel5. Justus Lipsius’s De militia Romana: Polybius Revived or How an Ancient Historian was Turned into a Manual of Early Modern Warfare, Jeanine De Landtsheer6. “The Grandeur that was Rome”: Scholarly Analysis and Pious Awe in Lipsius’s Admiranda, Marc Laureys7. Civic Self-Offering: Some Renaissance Representations of Marcus Curtius, Maria Berbara8. Montaigne, Plutarch and Historiography, Paul J. Smith9. Plutarch’s Lives and Coriolanus: Shakespeare’s View of Roman History, Bart Westerweel10. The Reception of Plutarch in the Netherlands: Octavia and Cleopatra in the Heroic Epistles of J.B. Wellekens (1710), Olga van Marion11. The Reception of Plutarch in Friedrich Schiller’s Lectures on Solon and Lycurgus’s Legislation, Sjaak Onderdelinden12. Marc Anton ironisch? Zu Form und Erfindung seiner Leichenrede in Shakespeares Julius Caesar, Wilfried Stroh13. The Uses of Ancient History in the Emblems of Joannes Sambucus (1531–1584), Arnoud Visser14. The Emperor Hadrian as an Artist in Karel van Mander’s Schilder-boeck, Francesca Terrenato15. Tyrant or Stoic Hero? Marc-Antoine Muret’s Julius Caesar, Jan Bloemendal16. Caesar the Father in Marie-Anne Barbier’s La mort de César (1709), Alicia Montoya17. The Dutch Republic between Hauteur and Greed — Lambert van den Bosch and his Drama L. Catilina, Bettina NoakList of IllustrationsIndexList of Contributors
Includes one contribution in German