The Rediscovery of Antiquity: The Role of the Artist
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The Rediscovery of Antiquity: The Role of the Artist (2004) - Various, Publisher: Warburg Institute
- The history of Renaissance painters who since the 1480s descended into the buried buildings of Ancient Rome, most notably Nero's Golden House or Domus Aurea.
- Page 344 --> appear to have been rediscovered by the early 1480s. Visitors were lowered into the rooms through tunnels dug down from the surface of the hill. ...
- Many of the Domus Aurea's rooms, and service corridors, were decorated with what we now call Pompeiian fourth-style wall paintings (Segala & Sciortino 1999; ...
- The latest volume of "Acta Hyperborea", which appeared in the late fall of 2003, includes articles, which are the revised versions of papers presented at a conference in Copenhagen in September 2001. The participants were classical archaeologists, art historians and artists. The anthology is divided into four main themes: artists use of ancient models; forming ideas and shaping taste; artists and patrons; and, creating collections.
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