Alexandria the Divine.
| N° d'inventaire | 18273 |
| Format | 26.5 x 32.7 |
| Détails | 1140 p., 2 volumes bound in publisher's slipcase. |
| Publication | Geneva, 2014 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | |
In the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD, a novel was composed to the glory of the conqueror who had founded the city of Alexandria, "like a divine world, a universal object of desire, at the center of the earth, as Sarapis, the god of the world, had revealed to him in a dream. "Divine Alexandria, axis of the world, was, in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, for nearly a millennium, at the heart and principle of the first globalization of knowledge and beliefs. The work of art and science and the exhibition that bear its title evoke what it was and what, thanks to it, were the intellectual, cultural and religious exchanges that in Antiquity covered the entire inhabited world, on the scale desired by the genius of Alexander and ordered by the power of the Roman Empire. The legacies were immense, in the Muslim world as in Europe until the advent of the Medici who made Florence the new Alexandria of a humanist Renaissance. The Martin Bodmer Foundation, the Laurentian Library, and the Gandur Foundation for Art have combined their treasures and efforts to restore its brilliant destiny. The collaboration of more than one hundred of the most renowned scholars and researchers has renewed knowledge and given a new dimension to the manuscripts, archaeological objects, and historical sites, presented in the book through more than 400 original photographs, most of them taken with a large-format camera. The Martin Bodmer Foundation's exhibition brings together papyri, source manuscripts among the most prestigious in the Medici collection, and archaeological objects from the Jean Claude Gandur collection. Forty original photographs, printed using ancient processes, showcase the places where the writings and objects were produced. The collection offers a window onto the light of Alexandria.
In the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD, a novel was composed to the glory of the conqueror who had founded the city of Alexandria, "like a divine world, a universal object of desire, at the center of the earth, as Sarapis, the god of the world, had revealed to him in a dream. "Divine Alexandria, axis of the world, was, in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, for nearly a millennium, at the heart and principle of the first globalization of knowledge and beliefs. The work of art and science and the exhibition that bear its title evoke what it was and what, thanks to it, were the intellectual, cultural and religious exchanges that in Antiquity covered the entire inhabited world, on the scale desired by the genius of Alexander and ordered by the power of the Roman Empire. The legacies were immense, in the Muslim world as in Europe until the advent of the Medici who made Florence the new Alexandria of a humanist Renaissance. The Martin Bodmer Foundation, the Laurentian Library, and the Gandur Foundation for Art have combined their treasures and efforts to restore its brilliant destiny. The collaboration of more than one hundred of the most renowned scholars and researchers has renewed knowledge and given a new dimension to the manuscripts, archaeological objects, and historical sites, presented in the book through more than 400 original photographs, most of them taken with a large-format camera. The Martin Bodmer Foundation's exhibition brings together papyri, source manuscripts among the most prestigious in the Medici collection, and archaeological objects from the Jean Claude Gandur collection. Forty original photographs, printed using ancient processes, showcase the places where the writings and objects were produced. The collection offers a window onto the light of Alexandria.