Pirro Ligorio’s Worlds

Ginette Vagenheim, Ph. D. (1992), is Professor of Latin Language, Literature and Humanities at the Université 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 für 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.

• Preface Anthony GraftonList of FiguresIntroduction: Pirro Ligorio’s Worlds, or, an Invitation to Navigate the Boundaries of TruthFernando Loffredo and Ginette VagenheimPirro Ligorio versus Philology1 Pirro Ligorio’s Antiquarian PhilologyRobert W. Gaston2 Editing Ligorio’s Epigraphic Manuscripts: New Discoveries and New IssuesSilvia Orlandi3 The Epigraphical Forgeries in the Construction of Pirro Ligorio’s Libro XXXIX on Roman AntiquitiesNicoletta Balistreri4 Drawing Circles: Pirro Ligorio’s Working Methods as Evidenced in His Numismatic ManuscriptsSarah E. CoxPirro Ligorio and the Ancient World5 Pirro Ligorio’s Evidence for the Cult of Jupiter Dolichenus in Rome and Religious Life at the BarracksBlair Fowlkes-Childs6 Pirro Ligorio and Sicilian Antiquities: Indifference or an Unwitting “Short Circuit”?Federico Rausa7 Looking for Sirens: Ancient Sites in Naples According to Pirro LigorioAnna Schreurs-MorétPirro Ligorio and the Renaissance Villa8 Pirro Ligorio’s Casino of Pius IV Reconsidered, or, Why People Love Ligorio’s BuildingsArnold Nesselrath9 Pirro Ligorio and St Peter’s Basilica: More on the Historical-Christian Investigations and on a Medieval “Reuse” in the Casino of Pius IVCarmelo Occhipinti10 The Villa d’Este at Tivoli and Its Gardens in Marc-Antoine Muret’s Tivoli Cycle of Poems and Uberto Foglietta’s TyburtinumGeorge Hugo TuckerPirro Ligorio and the Visual Arts11 Pirro Ligorio’s Oxford AlbumIan Campbell12 In the Shadow of Polidoro da Caravaggio: Pirro Ligorio as a DraftsmanGinette Vagenheim13 “Pirro Ligorio Neapolitan Painter,” 1534–1549 (With a New Addition on His Late Activity as an Architect)Patrizia Tosini14 Pirro Ligorio and Sculpture, or, on the Reproducibility of AntiquityFernando LoffredoConclusionsMarcello Fagiolo (with an appendix by Fabio Colonnese)BibliographyIndex of Ancient NamesIndex of Modern AuthorsIndex of TopographyIndex of Inscriptions

"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 Årsskrift’ pp. 159-161