ABSTRACT
This chapter explores evidence in the first three decades of the sixteenth century of a growing awareness of classical antiquities, whether in France or Italy. It shows how knowledge of classical antiquities reflects in art, whether in engravings for a pioneering work on perspective, or in miniatures for manuscript that compares the campaigns of Franç ois I and his companions in arms to those of Julius Cæ SAR and his generals. The chapter reviews classical coins to illustrate the text with republican and imperial portraits. Paris printed a collection of Raffaele Maffei's antiquarian essays, including De urbe Roma, dedicated by a pedagogue at the Collège de Lisieux, Vincentius Balla, to the archbishop of Rouen, whilst Lyonnais printers included pseudo-Publius Victor's De regionibus urbis Romæ in editions of the Itinerarium Antoninianum. A striking example of growing antiquarian taste is the work of Jean Pè lerin surnamed Viator, canon of the cathedral of Toul, who was particularly interested in theories of perspective.
