Title:
Rome : a cultural, visual, and personal history / Robert Hughes.
ISBN:
9780307268440
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Knopf, 2011.
Physical Description:
x, 498 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
General Note:
"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
Contents:
Foundation -- Augustus -- Later empire -- Pagans versus Christians -- Medieval Rome and Avignon -- Renaissance -- Rome in the seventeenth century -- High baroque (Bernini, Borromini, etc.) -- Eighteenth-century Rome, neo-classicism, and the grand tour -- The nineteenth century: orthodoxy versus modernity -- Futurism and fascism -- Rome recaptured.
Summary:
A comprehensive and deeply personal history of Rome, as city, as empire, and, crucially, as an origin of Western art and civilization. The founding of Rome is shrouded in legend, but current archaeological evidence supports the theory that Rome grew from pastoral settlements and coalesced into a city in the 8th century BC. It developed into the capital of the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic and finally the Roman Empire. For almost a thousand years, Rome was the most politically important, richest and largest city in the Western world. This book tells the story of the Eternal City, from its earliest days up to the present.
OCLC Number:
ocn701810351
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