The hills of Rome : signature of an eternal city
Caroline Vout
Bok · Engelsk · 2012
| Omfang | XVII, 284 sider, 16 plansjer : illustustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | Introduction: the journey to Rome -- The map -- The itinerary -- The 'take home' message -- The lie of the land -- The seven hills of Rome, republic and empire -- After the high Roman fashion -- The renaissance of the seven hills -- Nineteenth and twentieth-century encounters -- Seven is the magic number -- An invention of tradition -- The potency and possibility of the number seven -- Varro's contribution to the story -- Before the mountains were settled -- Rome, la città eterna -- The seven hills and the ambitions of empire -- Dizzy heights under the Flavians -- The rise and fall of Rome in late antiquity -- Postscript -- Painting by numbers -- The limits of representation -- The seven hills of renaissance artists and patrons -- Nineteenth-century ways of seeing -- On top of the world -- Villas and gardens -- In the thick of it -- Getting the measure of the whole of Rome -- Framing a view from the Capitoline or Palatine -- The imperial gaze -- Divine omniscience -- Signing off -- The history of an idea -- Geography as history.
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| ISBN | 9781107025974
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