Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation

eyes are sometimes inlaid in silver, as in the bronze bust of
a young man in the J. Paul Getty Museum (c. 1520).

antiquarianism Although springing initially from a de-
sire to recover the MANUSCRIPTSof classical texts, the anti-
quarian impulse that spread throughout Europe during
the Renaissance came to include the collection and study
of coins (see NUMISMATICS), architectural fragments, and
many other artefacts from the past. Discovering what

these objects meant to collectors provides an insight into

their views of history and time, art and humanity. When

Pliny the Elder (23–79 CE) commented on ancient mar-

vels he paid most attention to those that were especially

large, costly, or created by famous men. By contrast, Re-

naissance HISTORIOGRAPHYled scholars to look systemati-

cally at the achievements of past civilizations, and to

compare them with those of their own era. PETRARCH, one

of the earliest collectors of manuscripts and coins, saw the

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Houses of Anjou

Charles

Martel

John,

Duke of Durazzo

(d. 1335)

Robert I,

King of Sicily

(d. 1343)

Louis,

Duke of

Durazzo

(d. 1362)

Charles,

Duke of

Durazzo

(d. 1384)

Robert

(d. 1356)

Charles,

Duke of Calabria

(d. 1328)

Joanna I,

Queen of Sicily

(d. 1382)

promised the

succession to

Charles III,

King of Sicily

(d. 1386)

Louis I,

Duke of Anjou

(d. 1384)

John II,

King of France

(d. 1364)

Louis II,

Duke of Anjou

(d. 1417)

Louis III,

Duke of Anjou

(d. 1434)

Ladislas,

King of Sicily

(d. 1414)

Joanna II

Queen of Sicily

(d. 1435)

promised the

succession to

René, Duke of

Anjou (d. 1480)

Marie m. Charles VII

King of France

(d. 1461)

Louis XI,

King of France

(d. 1483)

Joan m. Louis, Duke

of Orleans

King of France

(1498–1515)

King of Naples

(1501–03)

Charles VIII

King of France

(d. 1498)

Charles II,

King of Sicily (d. 1309)

Charles of Anjou,

King of Sicily (1266–85)

John (d. 1470)

The Angevin claim to Naples and Sicily; in 1379 Joanna I of Sicily promised the succession to Louis of Anjou, whose heirs pursued the

claim for the next century.