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Images as Evidence in Seventeenth-Century Europe
- Journal of the History of Ideas
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 64, Number 2, April 2003
- pp. 273-296
- 10.1353/jhi.2003.0023
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This essay is concerned with one aspect of the European antiquarian movement of the seventeenth century. Like the humanist movement out of which it developed, antiquarianism was originally text-centered. However, in the course of time the antiquaries became more and more interested in the material culture of the past. This article adopts a comparative approach to the study of what might be called the "three antiquities," classical, Christian, and barbarian, and focuses on the question of evidence, especially on what the scholars of the time considered to be reliable evidence.