The Renaissance

Abstract

The rediscovery and revival of the “Classical” style and subject matter of ancient art is probably the most familiar aspect of the Renaissance “renewal of antiquity”. This chapter explores some of the manifestations of the Renaissance “discovery” of ancient Rome during the period c. 1300–1600. The revival of Rome stood at the very heart of Petrarch's humanistic project. Roman “revivals” in the arts, literature, scholarship, and politics are familiar themes in Medieval European culture, from the Carolingian/Ottonian renovatio to the twelfth-century “Renaissance” and beyond. Historically significant imagery was provided in miniature by ancient coins, which bore tiny portraits of Roman emperors and worthies, and the monuments of Rome, collected throughout the Renaissance period by artists and scholars. As an exercise in archaeological reconstruction, Filarete's relief has few peers, even among works produced many decades later.

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