TY - BOOK ID - 8598407 TI - The seven ancient wonders in the early modern world AU - Rodríguez-Moya, Inmaculada AU - Mínguez-Cornelles, Víctor PY - 2017 SN - 9781472467287 PB - London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group DB - UniCat KW - Art de la Renaissance KW - Sept merveilles du monde KW - Influence classique KW - Art KW - anno 1500-1799 KW - anno 1400-1499 KW - Europe KW - Sept merveilles du monde. KW - Influence classique. KW - invloed van antieke kunst UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8598407 AB - The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World have had a lasting impact upon the intellectual landscape of the post-classical world. As well as provoking historical debate and reflection, they have proved an enduring yardstick by which succeeding generations have measured the architectural and cultural accomplishments of their own eras. Focusing particularly upon the Renaissance and Baroque periods, this book looks at how the Wonders of the World were represented in art, architecture and sculpture, and the ways that European courts could evoke them as a useful image of power. Within this artistic culture, special attention is paid to the recreations and constructions generated between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries in the sphere of ephemeral art, especially those linked to court celebrations in the principal European states. This approach provides a framework to analyse and evaluate the claims of other European Renaissance and Baroque architecture to Wonder status, an approach bolstered by the use of the Palace of El Escorial as a case study of a modern "Eighth Wonder". ER -