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The virtual tourist in Renaissance Rome: printing and collecting the speculum romanae magnificentiae

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In 1540 Antonio Lafreri, a native of Besancon transplanted to Rome, began publishing maps and other printed images that depicted major monuments and antiquities in Rome. These prints - of statues and ruined landscapes, inscriptions and ornaments, reconstructed monuments and urban denizens - evoked ancient Rome and appealed to the taste for classical antiquity that defined the Renaissance. \Collections of these prints came to be known as the "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", the "Mirror of Roman Magnificence." Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the University of Chicago Library's "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", the largest collection of its kind in the world, "The Virtual Tourist in Renaissance Rome" places these prints in their historical context and examines their publishing history. Editor Rebecca Zorach traces their journey from their creators and publishers to pilgrims, collectors, antiquarians, and dealers - "virtual tourists" who, over several centuries, revisited and reinvented the Renaissance image of Rome. A marvelous exploration of a rich collection of engravings and etchings, this illustrated volume will fascinate anyone interested in Renaissance Rome, the history of print collecting, the reception of antiquity, and tourism.

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Engineering the eternal city: infrastructure, topography, and the culture of knowledge in Rome

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Between the catastrophic flood of the Tiber River in 1557 and the death of the ''engineering pope'' Sixtus V in 1590, the city of Rome was transformed by intense activity involving building construction and engineering projects of all kinds. Using hundreds of archival documents and primary sources, ''Engineering the Eternal City'' explores the processes and people involved in these infrastructure projects—sewers, bridge repair, flood prevention, aqueduct construction, the building of new, straight streets, and even the relocation of immensely heavy ancient Egyptian obelisks that Roman emperors had carried to the city centuries before.

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La Venise des livres

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Après la publication de son premier imprimé en 1469, Venise devient en quelques années la première productrice de livres en Europe. Il s’agit d’un métier neuf qui se développe hors des cadres institutionnels des corporations. Les livres produits se retrouvent dans toutes les bibliothèques d’Europe. Ces imprimeurs qui ont fait le succès de Venise sont pour la plupart d'origine étrangère. Ils sont Allemands d’abord, avant l’arrivée d’autres communautés dans cette industrie. Ce sont des marchands et des artisans en provenance de toute l’Europe et d’une partie de la Méditerranée orientale. Au-delà des échecs, beaucoup se sont intégrés dans la ville, sa géographie, sa sociabilité, et ont construit une nouvelle industrie du livre au coeur de l’Europe.

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The foundation of Rome

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This book deals with `the historical anthropology of the ancient world', investigating the way in which Romans represented the founding figure of Romulus and the foundation of Rome in the mid-8th century BC, rather than examining whether it really did happen that way. Augusto Fraschetti presents the history of the foundation of Rome as it existed in the writings of historians such as Tacitus and Livy, by poets such as Ovid and by Cicero. In examining events in the life of Romulus, such as his war-making skills, his troubled relationship with the senate and the dismemberment of his body, Fraschetti asks whether authors exploited these episodes to comment upon actual events such as the assassination of Casear. This book is also about how Romans during the reign of Augustus, created their own history in order to account for and justify their future imperial glory, at the cost of their republican ideals. Appendices examine the ambiguous figure of Tarpeia and the archaeological discovery of a piece of wall at the foot of the Palatine Hill which has been dated to the 8th century BC. Translated from the Italian by Marian Hill and Kevin Windle.

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Dominion of the eye: urbanism, art, and power in early modern Florence

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Trachtenberg's book exmines the urban transformation of Florence in the fourteenth century. Focusing on the creation of the Piazza della Signoria and the Piazza del Duomo, he documents in engaging detail how and why urban planners, in league with the civic government, enlarged these urban spaces. Articulating the design principles that served as the foundation for these urban renewal projects, Trachtenberg's book fundamentally revises our understanding of urban planning in the early modern period, countering the received claim that rational planning begins only in the Renaissance.

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Venice and the East

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This lively and richly illustrated book investigates the influence of oriental trade and travel on medieval Venice and its architecture. Architectural historian Deborah Howard examines the experiences of Venetian merchants overseas, focusing on links with Egypt, Syria, and Palestine, as well as with Persia and the Silk Route. She argues that many Venetians gained insight into Islamic culture through personal contacts with their Muslim trading partners. Based on wide-ranging multidisciplinary research, this book examines the mechanisms that governed the exchange of visual culture across ideological boundaries before the age of printing. Howard explores a range of building types that reflect the impact of Islamic imagery, paying special attention to two icon buildings, San Marco and the Palazzo Ducale. She considers the complexities of importing Muslim ideas to an unambiguously Christian city, itself the point of embarkation for pilgrims to the Holy Land.

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The architecture of modern Italy volume I: the challenge of tradition, 1750-1900

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Volume 1 : the challenge of tradition, 1750-1900 explores the dynamic balancing the forces demanded by a reverence for Italy's unparalleled architectural patrimony and a desire for new means of expression and technological innovation. From the neoclassical fantasies of Giovanni Battista Piranesi to the spectaculor steel-and-glass galleries of Milan, 'The challenge of tradition' reveals an underappreciated history of richness and complexity.

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The Academia Belgica in Rome: Building for the arts and sciences in the eternal city

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This book is the first publication on the building of the Academia Belgica in Rome, a residence for Belgian researchers and artists and a centre for scientific and cultural activities. Constructed between 1937 and 1939 by the Italian Gino Cipriani and the Belgian Jean Hendrickx-Van den Bosch, in a style both modernist and Art Deco, the building has maintained not only its original exterior but also in large parts its interior decorations and even furniture. The authors investigate the conception and realisation of the original building and its interior design programme, within the context of the cultural and political exchange between Belgium and Italy in the inter-war period. This richly illustrated volume includes original photographs of the building and its furniture, architectural plans, drawings and designs, plus a new series of commissioned photographs of the building by Belgian architectural photographer Maxime Delvaux.

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The architecture of public space

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This new book by Labics, one of Italy’s leading architectural firms, is devoted to the country’s architecture of public space. Squares, galleries, loggias, porticoes, and courtyards are the elements that characterize Italy’s historic towns and cities—and that make the experience of these public spaces intense and attractive. Labics sets out to explore these enchanting spaces, to analyze their history and typologies, and to document and describe them through newly produced photographs, plans, and diagrams. They offer a taxonomy of solutions that, as a whole, forms a timeless theory for the design of public spaces. ''The architecture of public ppace'' forms a captivating collection of image material that visually decodes the characteristic core elements of Italian architecture and specifies their role in the definition of public space. The volume highlights the architectural solutions from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries that produce the particular spatial quality of these urban structures and sets out how they were originally established for and are continuing to be used by the people.

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La civilisation romaine

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La civilisation romaine . Rome. C'est une ville, un empire, une civilisation. Mais une ville où les habitants aspirent à la ruralité, un empire créé par la République, une civilisation dont la domination repose sur la participation des vaincus. Rome est le nom de cette création continue de contradictions qui, douze siècles durant, sans révérer ni renier le passé, s'est nourrie des crises qui l'ont agitée et où l'homme a trouvé les moyens de vivre sa liberté. Rome a fait une ville de ce qui jusque-là était le monde et rien du monde qui nous entoure aujourd'hui n'eût été ce qu'il est si Rome n'avait existé. Ensemble complexe de coutumes, de techniques, de règles sociales formulées et informulées, de goûts, de styles de vie, et de manières de s'insérer dans le monde, les problèmes romains ne sont jamais très loin de ceux de notre temps. Dans cet ouvrage de référence, Pierre Grimai nous invite à redécouvrir l'émergence et la chute d'une culture sans précédent que nous ne saurions oublier sans mutiler une part de nous-mêmes.