Rome measured and imagined : early modern maps of the Eternal City /

At the turn of the 15th century, Rome was in the midst of a dramatic transformation from what the 14th-century poet Petrarch had termed a 'crumbling city' populated by 'broken ruins' into a prosperous Christian capital. Scholars, artists, architects, and engineers fascinated by R...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Maier, Jessica (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Temas:
Cartography > Italy > Rome.
Cartographie > Italie > Rome.
REFERENCE > Atlases & Gazetteers.
TRAVEL > Maps & Road Atlases.
Cartography
Travel
Kartografi.
Resor.
Kartor.
Rome (Italy) > Maps.
Rome (Italy) > Description and travel.
Rome (Italie) > Descriptions et voyages.
Italy > Rome
Italien > Rom.
Maps
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction. "Icarus spreading his wings" : the early modern city brought to life
  • Chapter one. Toward a new city image : Leon Battista Alberti's Descriptio Urbis Romae (ca. 1450) and Francesco Rosselli's Lost View of Rome (ca. 1458-90)
  • Late medieval origins
  • Alberti's Survey of Rome
  • Rosselli's Rome in twelve sheets
  • Chapter two. Putting Rome into drawing : the lessons of architecture and antiquity in the early 1500s
  • Raphael's call to preserve, measure and draw the ruins
  • Raphael's larger goals and audience
  • Drawn from the grave : illustrated works on Ancient Rome after Raphael
  • Pictorialism revisited
  • Chapter three. Syntheses : Leonardo Bufalini's plan of Rome (1551)
  • Origins, form, and function of Bufalini's background and intended audience
  • Bufalini and the art of surveying
  • Ancient and modern in Bufalini's map
  • The early reception and influence of Bufalini's map
  • The modern reception of Bufalini's map
  • Chapter four. Antitheses : Ancient and Modern Rome in sixteenth-century imagery
  • Bartolomeo Marliani, Pirro Ligorio, and the "memory of ancient things"
  • Stefano Du Perac, the ancient Forma urbis, and the city renewed
  • Mario Cartaro and the Paragone of ancient and modern
  • Roman print culture, dissemination, and the market
  • Chapter five. "Before the eyes of the whole world" : the city writ large, 1593-1676
  • Antonio Tempesta's Prospectus and its progeny : painterly approaches to the reenergized city
  • Matteo Greuter, Giovanni Battistia Falda, and architectural approaches to seventeenth-century Rome
  • Epilogue. The Eternal City measured and imagined.

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