The hills of Rome : signature of an eternal city /

Explores the cliché of 'the city of seven hills' and how, since antiquity, it has shaped experience of the city.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vout, Caroline
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Temas:
HISTORY > Ancient > Rome.
Travel.
Hügel
Rom > Motiv
Stadtbeschreibung
Geschichtsbild
Vedute
Kunst
Reisbeschrijvingen.
Kunst.
Rome (Italy) > Description and travel.
Rome > History.
Rome (Italie) > Descriptions et voyages.
Rome > Histoire.
Italy > Rome.
Rome (Empire)
Rom
Rome.
History.
Geschiedenis (vorm)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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