- Titel: The hills of Rome : signature of an eternal city
- Erschienen: Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012
- Ausgabe: 1. publ
- Umfang: XVII, 284 S., Ill., Kt.
- ISBN: 9781107025974
- Sprache: Englisch
- Schlagwörter: Rome (Italy) ; Rome ; Rom ; Hügel ; Städtebau ; Architektur ; Geschichte ; Rom Motiv ; Kunst ; Stadtbeschreibung ; Geschichtsbild ; Vedute ; Aventin Rom ; Kapitol Rom ; Quirinal Rom ; Palatin Rom ; Esquilin Rom ; Caelius Mons Rom ; Viminal Rom ; Natur ; Reisebeschreibungen ; Geschichte des Reisens
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RVK-Notation:
NR 8735 : Rom
- Inhalt: 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
- Kommentar: Includes bibliographical references (S. 240 - 269) and index
- Medientyp: Buch
- Datenquelle: UB Heidelberg , Kunstbibliothek - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin , Bibliotheca Hertziana , Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in München , Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz , Kubikat
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