The hills of Rome : signature of an eternal city
| 1. Verfasser: |
Vout, Caroline.
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
2012
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| Umfang/Format: |
xvii, 284 p., 16 p. of pl. : ill. (some colored) ; 26 cm. |
| Schlagworte: | |
| iDAI.gazetteer: |
Roma Imperium Romanum |
| Inhalte/Bestandteile: | 3 Datensätze |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 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 citta 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.
