2016 · Q72
A branch of scholarship that flourished in Europe, particularly from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, and was devoted to the appreciation, chronicling and classification of historic and non-organic relics, monuments and old texts refers to
Indian Culture and HeritageAncient art and architecture
- AArchaeology
- BHistory
- CArchitecture
- DAntiquarianism
Explanation
Antiquarianism was the 15th–18th-century European scholarly pursuit devoted to the appreciation, chronicling, and classification of ancient relics, monuments, and old texts — the direct precursor of archaeology. Hence (D).