Libros

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 (...)

How did Jesuits use the contemporary visual language of baroque to draw the public into their vision of humanity, religion and society? In this book, several authors attempt to answer this complex question.The setting is Antwerp in the 17th century. At that time, the city served as the headquarters (...)