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Dixon, Susan M.

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The image and historical knowledge in mid-eighteenth-century Italy: A cultural context for Piranesi's archaeological publications.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The image and historical knowledge in mid-eighteenth-century Italy: A cultural context for Piranesi's archaeological publications./
Author:	Dixon, Susan M.
Description:	291 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-09, Section: A, page: 3486.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International54-09A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Archaeology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9406118

The image and historical knowledge in mid-eighteenth-century Italy: A cultural context for Piranesi's archaeological publications.
Dixon, Susan M.

The image and historical knowledge in mid-eighteenth-century Italy: A cultural context for Piranesi's archaeological publications. - 291 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-09, Section: A, page: 3486.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Cornell University, 1991.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi's archaeological publications issued circa 1762 were informed by attitudes current in mid-eighteenth-century Italian thought generated by a re-evaluation of history. Foremost among these was a recognition of the ability of the past's tangible remains--its artifacts and images of those artifacts--to narrate history. The dissertation identifies aspects of these attitudes which underlay the mid-eighteenth-century rationale and methods for archaeological explorations. It then demonstrates that Piranesi adopted both the why and how of contemporary archaeological research, and that he exploited these means for his own artistic purposes.Subjects--Topical Terms:

622985
Anthropology, Archaeology.

The image and historical knowledge in mid-eighteenth-century Italy: A cultural context for Piranesi's archaeological publications.
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520 $a Giovanni Battista Piranesi's archaeological publications issued circa 1762 were informed by attitudes current in mid-eighteenth-century Italian thought generated by a re-evaluation of history. Foremost among these was a recognition of the ability of the past's tangible remains--its artifacts and images of those artifacts--to narrate history. The dissertation identifies aspects of these attitudes which underlay the mid-eighteenth-century rationale and methods for archaeological explorations. It then demonstrates that Piranesi adopted both the why and how of contemporary archaeological research, and that he exploited these means for his own artistic purposes.
520 $a Primarily this dissertation develops the context of mid-eighteenth-century Italian ideas on how the past can be known via the image, and secondarily it places Piranesi well within this context, detailing how he used those ideas in his archaeological publications. The first chapter establishes Piranesi's connections with those interested in re-evaluating history, such as the history of architecture as embodied in its forms--Matteo Lucchesi, Tommaso Temanza, Giovanni Poleni and Carlo Lodoli--and those interested in archaeology and the role of creativity in archaeological reconstructions--Ridolfino Venuti, Giovanni Gaetano Bottari and Giuseppe Bianchini. It focuses on the early eighteenth-century scholars Giambattista Vico and Francesco Bianchini as sources for such ideas. Chapter Two explores the diffusion of these ideas in and by academies dealing with archaeological questions at the time--the Accademia Etrusca, the four papal academies founded by Pope Benedict XIV for the study of early Christian and Roman history and, tangentially, the Reggia Accademia Ercolanese. Since their findings were made public through a variety of vehicles, the academicians' attitudes towards the past were familiar to Piranesi. The third chapter elaborates on an overriding concern of the scholars, the image--both as an artifact and as a illustration of that artifact--and methods by which the image conveys historical knowledge. This chapter outlines the processes instrumental in bestowing the image with such power: the admission of doubt about historical knowledge, the interconnection of fantasy and memory and the relationship of perception and knowledge. In this section, Francesco Bianchini's recipe for creating an image that can narrate history is pinpointed as influential in engendering the dramatic compositions of Piranesi's archaeological images. Lastly, Chapter Four situates Piranesi's seven archaeological texts in the context of mid-eighteenth-century archaeological thought. It demonstrates Piranesi's absorption of the ideas towards the image as exemplified in his illustrated reconstructions of the ruined monuments and in his compilations of the artifacts. Lastly, it explains how Piranesi employed the arguments of archaeologists to advocate artistic freedom.
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