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One of our greatest art and cultural critics now takes on Rome’s complicated history as a city, an empire, an origin of Western art and civilization, and as his own inspiration. Robert Hughes opens this authoritative, searingly smart history with his own arrival in Rome in 1958, as a... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Gianlorenzo Bernini: Add a description of this character.
- Mussolini
- Constantine
- Raphael
- Marinetti
- Julius Caesar
- Piranesi
- Michelangelo
- Borromini
- Alberti
- Bramante
- Albani
- Virgil
- Hitler
- St Peter
- Garibaldi
- Julian
- Soane
- Vela
- Romulus
- Nero
- Overbeck
- Vittorio Emanuele
- Brunelleschi
- Pompey
- Antony
- Fontana
- Fellini
- Nicholas
- Julius Ii
- Leonardo
- Sironi
- Poussin
- Pius
- Horace
- Il Duce
- Aeneas
- Claude
- Boniface
- Claudius
- Marcus Aurelius
- Rubens
- Canova
- Batoni
- Boccioni
Setting & Locations edit
- Rome
- Eighteenth-century Rome
- Italy
- Europe
- France
- Vatican
- England
- Venice
- Germany
- Spain
- Avignon
- Papal States
- Egypt
- Africa
- Naples
- Paris
- Gaul
- Constantinople
- Diocletian
- Florence
- Greece
- Goethe
- Sicily
- North Africa
- Britain
- Caligula
- Medieval Rome
- Carthage
- Jerusalem
- London
- Austria
- Heaven
- America
- Republic
- Sistine
- Eternal City
- Alexandria
- Trastevere
- Australia
- Pantheon
- Vienna
- Asia
- Gerusalemme
- Lombardy
- Middle Ages
- Bologna
- Sardinia
- Holy Land
- Capitoline Hill
- Ireland
- Milan
- Cathar
- Athens
- New York
- Tuscany
- Borgo
- Etruria
First Sentence edit
Although nobody can say when Rome began, at least there is reasonable certainty of where it did.
Table of Contents edit
Prologue
1 Foundation
2 Augustus
3 Later Empire
4 Pagans Versus Christians
5 Medieval Rome and Avignon
6 Renaissance
7 Rome in the Seventeenth Century
8 High Baroque (Bernini, Borromini, Etc.)
9 Eighteenth-Century Rome, Neo-Classicism, and the Grand Tour
10 The Nineteenth Century: Orthodoxy Versus Modernity
11 Futurism and Fascism
12 Rome Recaptured
Epilogue
Photo Inserts
Bibliography
Index
Illustration Credits
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2011. (authoritative list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Robert Hughes (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: November 2011
ISBN: 0307268446
Page Count: 334
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: November 2011
ISBN: 0307268446
Page Count: 334
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 945.632
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