The Renaissance
Brian A. Curran
The rediscovery and revival of the “Classical” style subject matter ancient art is probably most familiar aspect Renaissance “renewal antiquity”. This chapter explores some manifestations “discovery” Rome during period c. 1300–1600. stood at very heart Petrarch's humanistic project. Roman “revivals” in arts, literature, scholarship, politics are themes Medieval European culture, from Carolingian/Ottonian renovatio to twelfth-century “Renaissance” beyond. Historically significant imagery was provided miniature by coins, which bore tiny portraits emperors worthies, monuments Rome, collected throughout artists scholars. As an exercise archaeological reconstruction, Filarete's relief has few peers, even among works produced many decades later.