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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.

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This well-written and aesthetically pleasing volume presents an excellent image of a previously often misunderstood artist and creates understanding for the passion he and his contemporaries felt for the restoration of the Roman Empire in a Christian direction. (translated from Swedish) Kari Lawe, Swedish institute in Rome, in 'Kyrkohistorisk Arsskrift' pp. 159-161

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Ginette Vagenheim, Ph. D. (1992), is Professor of Latin Language, Literature and Humanities at the Universite of Rouen-Normandie. She has published numerous articles and collective books on Pirro Ligorio, Antiquarianism and Classical scholarship in the Renaissance and its reception. Fernando Loffredo, Ph.D. (2010), is currently post-doctoral fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max-Planck-Institut fur Kunstgeschichte. He was the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow 2015-2017 at CASVA and he taught as Visiting Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University and the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

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