The Art of Discovery: Digging Into the Past in Renaissance Europe

by Maren Elisabeth Schwab and Anthony Grafton

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069123714X
• ISBN13: 9780691237145
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.8" x 8.6"