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Why were seventeenth-century antiquarians so spectacularly wrong? Even if they knew what ancient monuments looked like, they deliberately distorted the representation of them in print. Deciphering the printed reconstructions of Giacomo Lauro and Athanasius Kircher, this pioneering study uncovers an antiquity born with print culture itself and from the need to accommodate competitive publishers, ambitious patrons and powerful popes. By analysing the elements of fantasy in Lauro and Kircher's archaeological visions, new levels of meaning appear. Instead of being testimonies of failed archaeology, they emerge as complex architectural messages responding to moral, political, and religious issues of the day. This book combines several histories - print, archaeology, and architecture - in the attempt to identify early modern strategies of recovering lost Rome. Many books have been written on antiquity in the Renaissance, but this book defines an antiquity that is particularly Baroque.

Monuments --- Architecture, Roman --- Antiquarians --- Printing --- Historiography --- Civilization, Baroque --- Historiography. --- History --- Social aspects --- Political aspects --- Lauro, Giacomo, --- Kircher, Athanasius, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Rome --- Europe --- Antiquities --- Intellectual life --- History of civilization --- History of Europe --- Iconography --- anno 1600-1699 --- Antiquity --- Criticism and interpretation --- Baroque civilization --- Historical criticism --- Authorship --- Printing, Practical --- Typography --- Graphic arts --- Antiquaries --- Historians --- Roman architecture --- Historical monuments --- Architecture --- Sculpture --- Historic sites --- Memorials --- Public sculpture --- Statues --- Criticism --- Kircherus, Athanasius, --- Kircher, Atanasio, --- Chircher, Atanasio, --- Kirchere, Athanase, --- Kirker, Athanase, --- Lauri, Giacomo, --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome (Italy) --- Monuments - Rome - Historiography --- Architecture, Roman - Historiography --- Antiquarians - Europe - History - 17th century --- Printing - Social aspects - Europe - History - 17th century --- Historiography - Political aspects - Europe - History - 17th century --- Civilization, Baroque - Europe --- Lauro, Giacomo, - active 17th century - Criticism and interpretation --- Kircher, Athanasius, - 1602-1680 - Criticism and interpretation --- Rome - Antiquities - Historiography --- Europe - Intellectual life - 17th century --- Lauro, Giacomo, - active 17th century --- Kircher, Athanasius, - 1602-1680

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This book is a project in comparative history, but along two distinct axes, one historical and the other historiographical. Its purpose is to constructively juxtapose the early modern European and Chinese approaches to historical study that have been called "antiquarian." As an exercise in historical recovery, the essays in this volume amass new information about the range of antiquarian-type scholarship on the past, on nature, and on peoples undertaken at either end of the Eurasian landmass between 1500 and 1800. As a historiographical project, the book challenges the received---and often very much under conceptualized---use of the term "antiquarian" in both European and Chinese contexts. Readers will not only learn more about the range of European and Chinese scholarship on the past---and especially the material past---but they will also be able to integrate some of the historiographical observations and corrections into new ways of conceiving of the history of historical scholarship in Europe since the Renaissance, and to reflect on the impact of these European terms on Chinese approaches to the Chinese past. This comparison is a two-way street, with the European tradition clarified by knowledge of Chinese practices, and Chinese approaches better understood when placed alongside the European ones.

Antiquarians --- History --- Europe --- China --- Intellectual life --- Historiography --- S04/0200 --- China: History--Historiography and theory of history --- S02/0210 --- S12/0820 --- S17/0400 --- Antiquaries --- Historians --- China: General works--Intellectuals: general and before 1840 --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Comparative philosophy --- China: Art and archaeology--Chinese art: general and history --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Cina --- Kinë --- Cathay --- Chinese National Government --- Chung-kuo kuo min cheng fu --- Republic of China (1912-1949) --- Kuo min cheng fu (China : 1912-1949) --- Chung-hua min kuo (1912-1949) --- Kina (China) --- National Government (1912-1949) --- China (Republic : 1912-1949) --- People's Republic of China --- Chinese People's Republic --- Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo --- Central People's Government of Communist China --- Chung yang jen min cheng fu --- Chung-hua chung yang jen min kung ho kuo --- Central Government of the People's Republic of China --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo --- Zhong hua ren min gong he guo --- Kitaĭskai︠a︡ Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika --- Činská lidová republika --- RRT --- Republik Rakjat Tiongkok --- KNR --- Kytaĭsʹka Narodna Respublika --- Jumhūriyat al-Ṣīn al-Shaʻbīyah --- RRC --- Kitaĭ --- Kínai Népköztársaság --- Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- Erets Sin --- Sin --- Sāthāranarat Prachāchon Čhīn --- P.R. China --- PR China --- Chung-kuo --- Zhongguo --- Zhonghuaminguo (1912-1949) --- Zhong guo --- Chine --- République Populaire de Chine --- República Popular China --- Catay --- VR China --- VRChina --- 中國 --- 中国 --- 中华人民共和国 --- Jhongguó --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaxu Dundadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Dumdadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Dundad Ard Uls --- Khi︠a︡tad --- Kitad --- Dumdadu Ulus --- Dumdad Uls --- Думдад Улс --- Kitajska --- China (Republic : 1949- ) --- Historiography. --- History of civilization --- History as a science --- anno 1500-1799 --- PRC --- P.R.C. --- BNKhAU --- БНХАУ --- History. --- Antiquarians - Europe - History --- Antiquarians - China - History --- Europe - Intellectual life - 16th century --- China - Intellectual life - 16th century --- Europe - Intellectual life - 17th century --- China - Intellectual life - 17th century --- Europe - Intellectual life - 18th century --- China - Intellectual life - 18th century --- Europe - Historiography --- China - Historiography