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Maximilian I as Archeologist*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
Abstract
Emperor Maximilian I was intensely engaged with material relics of the ancient Roman and medieval German past. Maximilian’s historical imagination, creative and participatory rather than objective and distancing, guided his own monumental projects. This essay analyzes, among other episodes, the quest for the bones of the historical Siegfried in Worms and an apparently archeological drawing by Albrecht Dürer.
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A version of this paper was presented at a workshop on Literature and Art in the Circle of Maximilian I, chaired by Jan-Dirk Müller at the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel in December 1997. I am grateful for the response of the other workshop participants as well as more recent comments by Jeffrey Chipps Smith. Translations of primary sources are my own.
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