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The Ruin of the Eternal City: Antiquity and Preservation in Renaissance Rome

David Karmon

Print publication date: 2011

Print ISBN-13: 9780199766895

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2011

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199766895.001.0001

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Introduction

Introduction

Chapter:
(p.3) Introduction
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The Ruin of the Eternal City
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David Karmon

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199766895.003.0000

The introduction outlines the objectives of the book, which seeks to reassess preservation practices as they occurred in Renaissance Rome. The vocabulary of modern conservation theory is ill suited for this task. Instead, key terms defined by Biondo Flavio in the Roma instaurata of the mid-fifteenth century provide useful terminology to better evaluate the Renaissance understanding of interventions on ancient sites.

Keywords:   Biondo Flavio, Roma instaurata, conservation theory, preservation, restoration, Renaissance preservation practices

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