'Pirro Ligorio’s Worlds' brings renowned Ligorio specialists into conversation with emerging young scholars, on various aspects of the artistic, antiquarian and intellectual production of one of the most fascinating and learned antiquaries in the prestigious entourage of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. The book takes a more nuanced approach to the complex topic of Ligorio’s 'forgeries', investigating them in relation to previously neglected aspects of his life and work.
Author(s): Fernando Loffredo, Ginette Vagenheim (eds.)
Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 293. Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 34
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 450
City: Leiden
Preface / Anthony Grafton xi
List of Figures xiv
Introduction: Pirro Ligorio’s Worlds, or, an Invitation to Navigate the Boundaries of Truth / Fernando Loffredo and Ginette Vagenheim 1
Pirro Ligorio versus Philology
1. Pirro Ligorio’s Antiquarian Philology / Robert W. Gaston 25
2. Editing Ligorio’s Epigraphic Manuscripts: New Discoveries and New Issues / Silvia Orlandi 39
3. The Epigraphical Forgeries in the Construction of Pirro Ligorio’s 'Libro XXXIX' on Roman Antiquities / Nicoletta Balistreri 51
4. Drawing Circles: Pirro Ligorio’s Working Methods as Evidenced in His Numismatic Manuscripts / Sarah E. Cox 66
Pirro Ligorio and the Ancient World
5. Pirro Ligorio’s Evidence for the Cult of Jupiter Dolichenus in Rome and
Religious Life at the Barracks / Blair Fowlkes-Childs 85
6. Pirro Ligorio and Sicilian Antiquities: Indifference or an Unwitting 'Short Circuit'? / Federico Rausa 98
7. Looking for Sirens: Ancient Sites in Naples According to Pirro Ligorio / Anna Schreurs-Morét 146
Pirro Ligorio and the Renaissance Villa
8. Pirro Ligorio’s Casino of Pius IV Reconsidered, or, Why People Love Ligorio’s Buildings / Arnold Nesselrath 181
9. Pirro Ligorio and St Peter’s Basilica: More on the Historical-Christian Investigations and on a Medieval “Reuse” in the Casino of Pius IV / Carmelo Occhipinti 200
10. The Villa d’Este at Tivoli and Its Gardens in Marc-Antoine Muret’s Tivoli Cycle of Poems and Uberto Foglietta’s 'Tyburtinum' / George Hugo Tucker 218
Pirro Ligorio and the Visual Arts
11. Pirro Ligorio’s Oxford Album / Ian Campbell 255
12. In the Shadow of Polidoro da Caravaggio: Pirro Ligorio as a Draftsman / Ginette Vagenheim 273
13. “Pirro Ligorio Neapolitan Painter,” 1534–1549 (With a New Addition on His Late Activity as an Architect) / Patrizia Tosini 296
14. Pirro Ligorio and Sculpture, or, on the Reproducibility of Antiquity / Fernando Loffredo 324
Conclusions / Marcello Fagiolo (with an appendix by Fabio Colonnese) 360
Bibliography 375
Index of Ancient Names 404
Index of Modern Authors 412
Index of Topography 419
Index of Inscriptions 425
