The Seven Ancient Wonders in the Early Modern World

ISBN-13: 9781472467287 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 262 str.

Inmaculada Rodriguez; Victor Minguez

Opis

This monograph is a study and catalogue of the artistic production of the Early Modern World including and evoking the so-called Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, plus an eighth, considered by scholars of the 15th and 16th centuries to be the Royal Monastery of El Escorial. Nowadays we often see announcements of worldwide votes to evaluate the inclusion of new monuments or buildings on a prestigious list, that of the Wonders of the World. This list, however, comes from a fascinating cultural tradition going back thousands of years, starting in the 3rd century BC in the Hellenistic period and has been maintained to the present day, with reminders of the identity of a perfect civilisation. For scholars and artists of the Modern period, the Wonders of the World evoked a symbol of magnificence and rivalry. This book is important and very innovative also as there is no in-depth study or monograph dealing with the transcendence of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World in the Modern Age in configuring a collective European imagination and as a propagandistic image of power, or even these same aspects in the Contemporary World.

O autorze

Inmaculada Rodríguez-Moya is Assistant Professor in the University Jaume I, Spain. Her research has followed four lines of investigation: Iconography of Power, Colonial Art, Emblem Studies and Urbanism History. That research has been published in the form of two peer-reviewed and awarded monographs: La Mirada del virrey (2003) and El retrato del poder en México, 1781–1867 (2006), seven co-authored monographs, including Himeneo en la corte (2013), along with edited volumes, articles and contributions. 
 
Víctor Mínguez is Full Professor in the University Jaume I, Spain. His research has followed three main lines of investigation: Images of Power, Emblematic Art and Latin American Art. His main research monographs are: Los reyes distantes (1995), Los reyes solares (2001) and La invención de Carlos II (2013); and, with Inmaculada Rodríguez-Moya, Himeneo en la Corte (2013) and Napoleón y el espejo de la Antigüedad (2014).