Session 3: The Global Renaissance and Antiquities

How constitutive of the Renaissance is the relationship to the legacy of classical antiquity, and how does this work when we work outside Europe?

Suggested Texts:

Peter N. Miller, “Comparing Antiquarianisms: A View from Europe.” In Antiquarianism and Intellectual Life in Europe and China, 1500-1800, edited by Peter N. Miller and François Louis, pp. 103–46. University of Michigan Press, 2012. www.jstor.org/stable/10.3998/mpub.3992087.9

Alessandra Russo, ‘Lights on the Antipodes: Francisco de Holanda and an Art History of the Universal’, The Art Bulletin 102, 4 (2020): 37-65

Alain Schnapp, ‘What is a Ruin: The Western Definition’, KNOW 2, 1 (2018): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/696339

Those who wish to receive a copy of the readings before the meetings, should contact Professor Joan Pau Rubiés – mailto:joan-pau.rubies@upf.edu