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Item Number: 129602
Title: The site of Rome : Studies in the Art and Topography of Roma 1400-1750
Author: Marshall, David R. (ed)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788891306661
Description: Roma: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2014. 28cm., pbk., 264pp., 144 illus. Summary: This volume, number 13 in the Melbourne Art Journal series, brings together nine scholars who each explore an aspect of the art and architecture of Rome situated within the topography-or map-of Rome in the Renaissance and Early Modern periods, with several studies focusing on the eighteenth century. These are studies of sight and site: about how the appearance of different regions or aspects of the city intersect with complex systems of political, economic, social and artistic institutions and customs
Contents: Julie Rowe, Rome' s Mediaeval Fish Market at S. Angelo in Pescheria ; Joan Barclay Lloyd, Memory, Myth and Meaning in the Via Appia from Piazza di Porta Capena to Porta S. Sebastiano ; Louis Cellauro, Roma Antiqva Restored: The Renaissance Archaeological Plan ; Donato Esposito, The Virtual Rome of Sir Joshua Reynolds ; Lisa Beaven, Claude Lorrain and La Crescenza: The Tiber Valley in the Seventeenth Century ; David R. Marshall, The Campo Vaccino: Order and the Fragment from Palladio to Piranesi ; Arno Witte, Architecture and Bureaucracy: The Quirinal as an Expression of Papal Absolutism ; Tommaso Manfredi, Arcadia at Trinità dei Monti. The Urban Theatre of Maria Casimira and Alexander Sobieski in Rome ; John Weretka, The Non-aedicular Style' and the Roman Church Façade of the Early Eighteenth Century.
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