Reception of Ancient Egypt in Venice, 1400-1800

Reception of Ancient Egypt in Venice, 1400-1800

Travelers, Adventurers, and Collectors

Herrmann, Sabine

Springer International Publishing AG

06/2024

258

Dura

9783031577147

15 a 20 dias

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.- Introduction.



.- Part I. The Beginnings: Venice and the East in the Tre and Auattrocento.



.- 2. Accumulation, Integration and Assimilation: The Reception of Antiquity as Part of the Venetian Civic Identity.



.- 3. Ancient Egypt in Literature: The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili.



.- 4. Beyond Egypt: The Discovery of the Ancient Near East in Venice.- Part II. The Ancient Metropolises of Alexandria and Cairo.



.- 5. The Old in the New: The Urban Transformation of Alexandria.



.- 6. Cairo: The "New" City and the Ancient Monuments.- Part III. The Discovery of Upper Egypt.



.- 7. Upper Egypt: An Unknown Geographical Area?.



.- 8. The Ancient Monuments of Upper Egypt.- Part IV. Collecting Ancient Egyptian Objects.



.- 9. Materiality, Space and Self-fashioning: Aegyptiaca in Early Modern Collections.



.- 10. The Sixteenth Century.



.- 11. The Seventeenth Century.



.- 12. The Eighteenth Century.- Part V. Conclusions.



.- 13. Conclusion.
Reception of Ancient Egypt;Egyptomania;Venice;Early Modern Period;History of collecting;Islam;Antique;Ancient Egypt;Early modern Venice;Venetian studies;Venetian culture;Levant;Near East;Antiquarian studies;Hieroglyphs;Antiquity;Alexandria;Cairo;Ancient monuments;Material culture