04435nam a22006015i 4500 978-3-031-57715-4 DE-He213 20251030112258.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240604s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031577154 978-3-031-57715-4 10.1007/978-3-031-57715-4 doi D203.2-475 HBJD bicssc HBLH bicssc HIS010000 bisacsh NHD 3M thema Herrmann, Sabine. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 78241 The Reception of Ancient Egypt in Venice, 1400-1800 [electronic resource] : Travelers, Adventurers, and Collectors / by Sabine Herrmann. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XII, 258 p. 19 illus., 12 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda -- Introduction. -- Part I. The Beginnings: Venice and the East in the Tre and Auattrocento. -- 2. Accumulation, Integration and Assimilation: The Reception of Antiquity as Part of the Venetian Civic Identity. -- 3. Ancient Egypt in Literature: The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. -- 4. Beyond Egypt: The Discovery of the Ancient Near East in Venice -- Part II. The Ancient Metropolises of Alexandria and Cairo. -- 5. The Old in the New: The Urban Transformation of Alexandria. -- 6. Cairo: The "New" City and the Ancient Monuments -- Part III. The Discovery of Upper Egypt. -- 7. Upper Egypt: An Unknown Geographical Area?. -- 8. The Ancient Monuments of Upper Egypt -- Part IV. Collecting Ancient Egyptian Objects. -- 9. Materiality, Space and Self-fashioning: Aegyptiaca in Early Modern Collections. -- 10. The Sixteenth Century. -- 11. The Seventeenth Century. -- 12. The Eighteenth Century -- Part V. Conclusions. -- 13. Conclusion. This book examines for the first time how ancient Egypt is reflected in early modern Venetian sources. As a center of the printing industry, Venice was an important hub for the accumulation and dissemination of direct information on the Near East and the Levant. Therefore, ancient Egypt played a significant role in the cultural memory of Venice due to the lagoon city’s religious and mercantile orientation towards the East. The book explores how the acquisition, selection, and interpretation of Egyptian objects took shape in Venice, and which actors were involved in the circulation of knowledge about ancient Egypt. Venice can be used as a lens through which to understand the reception of ancient Egypt in the early modern period. Meaningful and partly unpublished sources from primarily Italian archives highlight the visual imagination of ancient Egypt and its lexicographical codification. The author draws upon these sources to examine the Venetian image of ancient Egypt in the early modern period and the epistemic change that accompanied it. Sabine Herrmann is an independent scholar based in Venice, Italy. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for the History of Medicine of the Robert Bosch Stiftung (IGM), the Georg-August University of Göttingen, and the University of Tübingen, all in Germany. Europe History 1492-. 68968 Middle East History. Africa, North History. 78242 History, Ancient. 68096 Civilization History. 66788 Art History. 68955 History of Early Modern Europe. 68969 History of the Middle East. History of North Africa. 78243 Classical Studies. 68097 Cultural History. 66790 Art History. 68957 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031577147 Printed edition: 9783031577161 Printed edition: 9783031577178 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57715-4 ZDB-2-HTY ZDB-2-SXH 60513 60513