{"product_id":"pirro-ligorio-s-worlds-antiquarianism-classical-erudition-and-the-visual-arts-in-the-late-renaissance-9789004382657","title":"Pirro Ligorio’s Worlds: Antiquarianism, Classical Erudition and the Visual Arts in the Late Renaissance","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePirro Ligorio’s Worlds brings renowned Ligorio specialists into conversation with emerging young scholars, on various aspects of the artistic, antiquarian and intellectual production of one of the most fascinating and learned antiquaries in the prestigious entourage of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. The book takes a more nuanced approach to the complex topic of Ligorio’s ‘forgeries’, investigating them in relation to previously neglected aspects of his life and work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This well-written and aesthetically pleasing volume presents an excellent image of a previously often misunderstood artist and creates understanding for the passion he and his contemporaries felt for the restoration of the Roman Empire in a Christian direction.\"  (translated from Swedish)    Kari Lawe, Swedish institute in Rome, in ‘Kyrkohistorisk Årsskrift’ pp. 159-161\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface    Anthony Grafton    List of Figures    Introduction: Pirro Ligorio’s Worlds, or, an Invitation to Navigate  the Boundaries of Truth   Fernando Loffredo and Ginette Vagenheim     Pirro Ligorio versus Philology    1 Pirro Ligorio’s Antiquarian Philology   Robert W. Gaston    2 Editing Ligorio’s Epigraphic Manuscripts: New Discoveries and  New Issues   Silvia Orlandi    3 The Epigraphical Forgeries in the Construction of Pirro Ligorio’s  Libro XXXIX on Roman Antiquities   Nicoletta Balistreri    4 Drawing Circles: Pirro Ligorio’s Working Methods as Evidenced in  His Numismatic Manuscripts   Sarah E. Cox    Pirro Ligorio and the Ancient World    5 Pirro Ligorio’s Evidence for the Cult of Jupiter Dolichenus in Rome and Religious Life at the Barracks   Blair Fowlkes-Childs    6 Pirro Ligorio and Sicilian Antiquities: Indifference or an Unwitting “Short Circuit”?   Federico Rausa    7 Looking for Sirens: Ancient Sites in Naples According to Pirro Ligorio   Anna Schreurs-Morét    Pirro Ligorio and the Renaissance Villa    8 Pirro Ligorio’s Casino of Pius IV Reconsidered, or, Why People Love Ligorio’s Buildings   Arnold Nesselrath    9 Pirro Ligorio and St Peter’s Basilica: More on the Historical-Christian Investigations and on a Medieval “Reuse” in the Casino of Pius IV   Carmelo Occhipinti    10 The Villa d’Este at Tivoli and Its Gardens in Marc-Antoine Muret’s Tivoli Cycle of Poems and Uberto Foglietta’s Tyburtinum   George Hugo Tucker    Pirro Ligorio and the Visual Arts    11 Pirro Ligorio’s Oxford Album   Ian Campbell    12 In the Shadow of Polidoro da Caravaggio: Pirro Ligorio as a Draftsman   Ginette Vagenheim    13 “Pirro Ligorio Neapolitan Painter,” 1534–1549 (With a New Addition  on His Late Activity as an Architect)   Patrizia Tosini    14 Pirro Ligorio and Sculpture, or, on the Reproducibility of Antiquity   Fernando Loffredo    Conclusions   Marcello Fagiolo (with an appendix by Fabio Colonnese)    Bibliography  Index of Ancient Names  Index of Modern Authors  Index of Topography  Index of Inscriptions","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210760642903,"sku":"9789004382657","price":139.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/pirro-ligorio-s-worlds-antiquarianism-classical-erudition-and-the-visual-arts-in-the-late-renaissance-9789004382657","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}