Caligula's barges and the Renaissance origins of nautical archaeology under water /
Sometime around 1446 A.D., Cardinal Prospero Colonna commissioned engineer Battista Alberti to raise two immense Roman vessels from the bottom of the lago di Nemi, just south of Rome. By that time, local fishermen had been fouling their nets and occasionally recovering stray objects from the sunken...
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Language: | English |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
2016
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Edition: | First edition. |
Series: | Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series.
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Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- From salvage to archaeology
- The humanist salvor
- The humanist intermediary
- The humanist commentator
- Quattrocento humanist archaeology
- Cinquecento engineers and a diving bell
- The social world
- The proprietor cardinal
- Dependent workers
- Inventive professionals
- Contextualization and conceptualization
- Ancient ship types analyzed and reborn
- Ferrara's moment, 1533-1568
- New arts and new opportunities.