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The Egyptian renaissance : the afterlife of ancient Egypt in early modern Italy

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VerfasserIn: Curran, Brian A. (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago [u.a.] : University of Chicago Press , 2007
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Bibliogr. Hinweis:Rezensiert in: [Rezension von: Curran, Brian, The Egyptian Renaissance: The Afterlife of Ancient Egypt in Early Modern Italy]
Verantwortlich:Brian Curran
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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