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The Egyptian renaissance : the afterlife of ancient Egypt in early modern Italy
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| Document Type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago [u.a.]
: University of Chicago Press
, 2007
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[Rezension von: Curran, Brian, The Egyptian Renaissance: The Afterlife of Ancient Egypt in Early Modern Italy] |
| Author Notes: | Brian Curran |
Table of Contents:
- The memory of Egypt
- Egyptian monuments from antiquity to the Middle Ages
- Humanists and hieroglyphs
- Egyptian monuments for Renaissance princes
- Sacred writings : Hermes Trismegistus and hieroglyphic epigraphy
- Egyptian ancestors : Alexander VI, Pinturicchio, and Annius of Viterbo
- Egypt in Venice : Francesco Colonna and Gentile Bellini
- Cleopatra and the second Julius : Egypt and the dream of empire in High Renaissance Rome
- Egyptian lives (and afterlives) in the Rome of the Medici popes
- Hieroglyphic studies in the High Renaissance
- The scepter of Osiris : Egyptian mysteries in the Missal of Cardinal Pompeo Colonna
- Conclusion : The Egyptian in the mirror
