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The baroque period spanned the whole of Europe from 1600 to 1780. Beginning with Italian artists who brought drama to painting through dynamic compositions and pronounced contrasts between light and dark, the baroque was later exported by countless artists to their own countries, where the new (...)

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 (...)