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A panoramic history of the antiquarians whose discoveries transformed Renaissance culture and gave rise to new forms of art and knowledgeIn the early fifteenth century, a casket containing the remains of the Roman historian Livy was unearthed at a Benedictine abbey in Padua. The find was greeted with the same enthusiasm as the bones of a Christian saint, and established a pattern that antiquarians would follow for centuries to come. The Art of Discovery tells the stories of the Renaissance antiquarians who turned material remains of the ancient world into sources for scholars and artists, inspirations for palaces and churches, and objects of pilgrimage and devotion.Maren Elisabeth Schwab and Anthony Grafton bring to life some of the most spectacular finds of the age, such as Nero’s Golden House and the wooden placard that was supposedly nailed to the True Cross. They take readers into basements, caves, and cisterns, explaining how digs were undertaken and shedding light on the methods antiquarians—and the alchemists and craftspeople they consulted—used to interpret them. What emerges is not an origin story for modern archaeology or art history but rather an account of how early modern artisanal skills and technical expertise were used to create new knowledge about the past and inspire new forms of art, scholarship, and devotion in the present.The Art of Discovery challenges the notion that Renaissance antiquarianism was strictly a secular enterprise, revealing how the rediscovery of Christian relics and the bones of martyrs helped give rise to highly interdisciplinary ways of examining and authenticating objects of all kinds.

HISTORY / Renaissance. --- Adjective. --- Adverb. --- Aeneid. --- Allegory. --- Anecdote. --- Antiquarian. --- Archaeology. --- Archaism. --- Athanasius Kircher. --- Attempt. --- Brochure. --- Case study. --- Clergy. --- Close-up. --- Connotation. --- Copying. --- Costume. --- Credential. --- David Knowles (scholar). --- De architectura. --- Docimium. --- Domus Aurea. --- Dunstan. --- Effigy. --- Eldridge Cleaver. --- Epigraphy. --- Etruscan art. --- Explanation. --- Exploration. --- Facsimile. --- Famulus. --- Fantasy. --- Feature story. --- Fellow. --- Ferentino. --- Filarete. --- Finding. --- Friar. --- Giorgio Vasari. --- Handbook. --- Ideology. --- Illustration. --- Illustrator. --- Ingenuity. --- Institutio Oratoria. --- Intellectual history. --- Intertitle. --- Journal of the History of Ideas. --- Literature. --- Livy. --- Lovato. --- Magnificence (history of ideas). --- Masculinity. --- Material Evidence. --- Miscegenation. --- Mural. --- Narrative. --- Notary. --- Odor. --- Opportunism. --- Palaeography. --- Panache. --- Parody. --- Philology. --- Philosophy. --- Pigment. --- Poppaea Sabina. --- Porta Nigra. --- Porta Salaria. --- Precentor. --- Pronunciation. --- Protagonist. --- Qualia. --- Quattrocento. --- Quintilian. --- Rediscovery. --- Relic. --- Scientist. --- Sculpture. --- Simultaneity. --- Spelman (music). --- Structuring. --- Subjectivity. --- Subplot. --- Surveying. --- Technology. --- Temperament. --- Terminology. --- Teucer. --- The Archaeologist. --- Thomas Hearne (artist). --- Thought. --- Titulus (inscription). --- Urn. --- Vestibule (architecture). --- Visual arts. --- Vitruvius. --- Voyeurism. --- Work of art. --- Writing.

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Few sources reveal the life of the ancient Romans as vividly as do the houses preserved by the eruption of Vesuvius. Wealthy Romans lavished resources on shaping their surroundings to impress their crowds of visitors. The fashions they set were taken up and imitated by ordinary citizens. In this illustrated book, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill explores the rich potential of the houses of Pompeii and Herculaneum to offer new insights into Roman social life. Exposing misconceptions derived from contemporary culture, he shows the close interconnection of spheres we take as discrete: public and private, family and outsiders, work and leisure. Combining archaeological evidence with Roman texts and comparative material from other cultures, Wallace-Hadrill raises a range of new questions. How did the organization of space and the use of decoration help to structure social encounters between owner and visitor, man and woman, master and slave? What sort of "households" did the inhabitants of the Roman house form? How did the world of work relate to that of entertainment and leisure? How widely did the luxuries of the rich spread among the houses of craftsmen and shopkeepers? Through analysis of the remains of over two hundred houses, Wallace-Hadrill reveals the remarkably dynamic social environment of early imperial Italy, and the vital part that houses came to play in defining what it meant "to live as a Roman."

Material culture --- Architecture, Domestic --- Architecture, Domestic --- Material culture --- Herculaneum (Extinct city) --- Herculaneum (Extinct city) --- Pompeii (Extinct city) --- Pompeii (Extinct city) --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- Social life and customs. --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- Social life and customs. --- Abdication. --- Aedicula. --- Alleius Nigidius Maius. --- Allusion. --- Ancillae. --- Antechamber. --- Apartment. --- Archetype. --- Architectural plan. --- Aristocracy. --- Art group. --- Author. --- Biography. --- Building. --- Cabinetry. --- City-state. --- Civil society. --- Clothing. --- Commius. --- Consideration. --- Contemporary society. --- Count. --- Credential. --- Cultural capital. --- Cultural history. --- Designer. --- Dowry. --- Dwelling. --- Dynasty. --- Economy. --- Edward Gorey. --- Ephesus. --- Etiquette. --- Exedra. --- Extended family. --- Floriculture. --- Freedman. --- Herculaneum. --- House plan. --- House. --- Household. --- Housing. --- Infrastructure. --- Insula (building). --- Interior design. --- Legatee. --- Literature. --- Living Space. --- Lodging. --- Magnificence (history of ideas). --- Mattress. --- Nobility. --- Occupancy. --- Opus sectile. --- Osteria. --- Ostia (Rome). --- Ownership. --- Parlour. --- Pergamon. --- Periodical literature. --- Peristyle. --- Pinacotheca. --- Political economy. --- Pompeii. --- Population density. --- Portico. --- Poster. --- Preservationist. --- Promiscuity. --- Pronoun. --- Proportion (architecture). --- Publication. --- Quartile. --- Residence. --- Residential area. --- Ruler. --- Show house. --- Social class. --- Social integration. --- Social position. --- Social relation. --- Social science. --- Social status. --- Society. --- Sociology. --- Studio apartment. --- Taberna. --- Tablinum. --- Tacitus. --- Tenement. --- Tibullus. --- Triclinium. --- Trimalchio. --- Ulpian. --- Usage. --- Vault (architecture). --- Vestibule (architecture). --- Vitruvius. --- Wallpaper. --- Workforce.