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Author | : David Karmon |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2011-06-09 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0199766894 |
The Ruin of the Eternal City provides the first systematic analysis of the preservation practices of the popes, civic magistrates, and ordinary citizens of Renaissance Rome. This study offers a new understanding of historic preservation as it occurred during the extraordinary rebuilding of a great European capital city.
Author | : David Karmon |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2011-04-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199877467 |
The Ruin of the Eternal City provides the first systematic analysis of the preservation practices of the popes, civic magistrates, and ordinary citizens of Renaissance Rome. This study offers a new understanding of historic preservation as it occurred during the extraordinary rebuilding of a great European capital city.
Author | : David Stuart |
Publisher | : Thames and Hudson |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2008-11-18 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Two leading Maya scholars tell this story of the rediscovery of the queen of Maya cities--Palenque--deep in the forest-clad mountains of southeastern Mexico. 150 illustrations.
Author | : Kate Quinn |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 2015-03-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0425259633 |
From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Alice Network and The Diamond Eye comes a historical saga about obsession, betrayal, and destiny. Sabina may be Empress of Rome, but she still stands poised on a knife’s edge. She must keep the peace between two deadly enemies: her husband Hadrian, Rome’s brilliant and sinister Emperor; and battered warrior Vix, her first love. But Sabina is guardian of a deadly secret: Vix’s beautiful son Antinous has become the Emperor’s latest obsession. Empress and Emperor, father and son will spin in a deadly dance of passion, betrayal, conspiracy, and war. As tragedy sends Hadrian spiraling into madness, Vix and Sabina form a last desperate pact to save the Empire. But ultimately, the fate of Rome lies with an untried girl, a spirited redhead who may just be the next Lady of the Eternal City....
Author | : Pamela O. Long |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2018-11-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022659128X |
Between the catastrophic flood of the Tiber River in 1557 and the death of the “engineering pope” Sixtus V in 1590, the city of Rome was transformed by intense activity involving building construction and engineering projects of all kinds. Using hundreds of archival documents and primary sources, Engineering the Eternal City explores the processes and people involved in these infrastructure projects—sewers, bridge repair, flood prevention, aqueduct construction, the building of new, straight streets, and even the relocation of immensely heavy ancient Egyptian obelisks that Roman emperors had carried to the city centuries before. This portrait of an early modern Rome examines the many conflicts, failures, and successes that shaped the city, as decision-makers tried to control not only Rome’s structures and infrastructures but also the people who lived there. Taking up visual images of the city created during the same period—most importantly in maps and urban representations, this book shows how in a time before the development of modern professionalism and modern bureaucracies, there was far more wide-ranging conversation among people of various backgrounds on issues of engineering and infrastructure than there is in our own times. Physicians, civic leaders, jurists, cardinals, popes, and clerics engaged with painters, sculptors, architects, printers, and other practitioners as they discussed, argued, and completed the projects that remade Rome.
Author | : Jessica Maier |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2020-11-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022659159X |
One of the most visited places in the world, Rome attracts millions of tourists each year to walk its storied streets and see famous sites like the Colosseum, St. Peter’s Basilica, and the Trevi Fountain. Yet this ancient city’s allure is due as much to its rich, unbroken history as to its extraordinary array of landmarks. Countless incarnations and eras merge in the Roman cityscape. With a history spanning nearly three millennia, no other place can quite match the resilience and reinventions of the aptly nicknamed Eternal City. In this unique and visually engaging book, Jessica Maier considers Rome through the eyes of mapmakers and artists who have managed to capture something of its essence over the centuries. Viewing the city as not one but ten “Romes,” she explores how the varying maps and art reflect each era’s key themes. Ranging from modest to magnificent, the images comprise singular aesthetic monuments like paintings and grand prints as well as more popular and practical items like mass-produced tourist plans, archaeological surveys, and digitizations. The most iconic and important images of the city appear alongside relatively obscure, unassuming items that have just as much to teach us about Rome’s past. Through 140 full-color images and thoughtful overviews of each era, Maier provides an accessible, comprehensive look at Rome’s many overlapping layers of history in this landmark volume. The first English-language book to tell Rome’s rich story through its maps, The Eternal City beautifully captures the past, present, and future of one of the most famous and enduring places on the planet.
Author | : Elizabeth McCahill |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2013-10-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674726154 |
In 1420, after more than one hundred years of the Avignon Exile and the Western Schism, the papal court returned to Rome, which had become depopulated, dangerous, and impoverished in the papacy's absence. Reviving the Eternal City examines the culture of Rome and the papal court during the first half of the fifteenth century. As Elizabeth McCahill explains, during these decades Rome and the Curia were caught between conflicting realities--between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, between conciliarism and papalism, between an image of Rome as a restored republic and a dream of the city as a papal capital. Through the testimony of humanists' rhetorical texts and surviving archival materials, McCahill reconstructs the niche that scholars carved for themselves as they penned vivid descriptions of Rome and offered remedies for contemporary social, economic, religious, and political problems. In addition to analyzing the humanists' intellectual and professional program, McCahill investigates the different agendas that popes Martin V (1417-1431) and Eugenius IV (1431-1447) and their cardinals had for the post-Schism pontificate. Reviving the Eternal City illuminates an urban environment in transition and explores the ways in which curialists collaborated and competed to develop Rome's ancient legacy into a potent cultural myth.
Author | : Hall Caine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : English fiction |
ISBN | : |
New National Theatre, Wm. H. Rapley, manager, Wm. H. Fowler, treasurer. Viola Allen as Roma in a dramatization by Mr. Hall Caine of his novel "The Eternal City," incidental music composed and arranged by Signore Pietro Mascagni, produced under the stage direction of E.W. Presbrey, Liebler & Co., managers.
Author | : Mauro Lucentini |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781983568725 |
Written by Rome-born Mauro Lucentini, Ph.D., one of Italy's most distinguished journalists, with the help of his family, all self-professed 'Romaniacs', this guidebook combines great practicality with fascinating descriptions and a tremendous range of knowledge. Renowned composer Giancarlo Menotti has written: 'This is a book for all who want to be inspired as well as informed, for poets and pilgrims seeking the spiritual roots of Rome;' while for Francesco Cossiga, the former President of Italy, 'Lucentini's work will take you to the heart of this city of wonders.''Incomparable' - The Sunday Telegraph, London'Exciting to read and excellent, practical company when you are in the city. Do not go to Rome without this book' - Country Life, London'Unanimously hailed as exceptional' - Neue Z�rcher Zeitung, Z�rich'The way this book narrates, explains, informs, and the way that all of this at the same time helps from the practical point of view, is marvellous' - Welt am Sonntag, Hamburg'Indispensable' - Die Presse, Vienna'Practicality is the key word here... But this can also be read for pure pleasure, as a beautiful book on Rome' - Il Corriere della Sera, Milan
Author | : Susan Stewart |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2021-06-02 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 022679220X |
"In 'The Ruins Lesson,' the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet-critic Susan Stewart explores the West's fascination with ruins in literature, visual art, and architecture, covering a vast chronological and geographical range from the ancient Egyptians to T. S. Eliot. In the multiplication of images of ruins, artists, and writers she surveys, Stewart shows how these thinkers struggled to recover lessons out of the fragility or our cultural remains. She tries to understand the appeal in the West of ruins and ruination, particularly Roman ruins, in the work and thought of Goethe, Piranesi, Blake, and Wordsworth, whom she returns to throughout the book. Her sweeping, deeply felt study encompasses the founding legends of broken covenants and original sin; Christian transformations of the classical past; the myths and rituals of human fertility; images of ruins in Renaissance allegory, eighteenth-century melancholy, and nineteenth-century cataloguing; and new gardens that eventually emerged from ancient sites of disaster"--