Author : David Karmon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 23,85 MB
Release : 2011-06-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0199766894
The Ruin of the Eternal City provides the first systematic analysis of the preservation practices of the popes, civic magistrates, and ordinary citizens of Renaissance Rome. This study offers a new understanding of historic preservation as it occurred during the extraordinary rebuilding of a great European capital city.
Author : Julia Hell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 30,32 MB
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 022658819X
The Roman Empire has been a source of inspiration and a model for imitation for Western empires practically since the moment Rome fell. Yet, as Julia Hell shows in The Conquest of Ruins, what has had the strongest grip on aspiring imperial imaginations isn’t that empire’s glory but its fall—and the haunting monuments left in its wake. Hell examines centuries of European empire-building—from Charles V in the sixteenth century and Napoleon’s campaigns of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries to the atrocities of Mussolini and the Third Reich in the 1930s and ’40s—and sees a similar fascination with recreating the Roman past in the contemporary image. In every case—particularly that of the Nazi regime—the ruins of Rome seem to represent a mystery to be solved: how could an empire so powerful be brought so low? Hell argues that this fascination with the ruins of greatness expresses a need on the part of would-be conquerors to find something to ward off a similar demise for their particular empire.
Author : Roberto Cassanelli
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 19,67 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780892366804
Traditionally a critical component of the education of any architect was to draw the ruins of ancient Rome, reconstructing either from ancient sources or, more often, pure fantasy, what the original structures must have looked like. From this training emerged generations of architects imbued with the aesthetic ideals that would form the Neoclassical and Beaux-Arts building styles. In this magnificently printed volume are reproduced some of the most extraordinarily handsome drawings of the ruins of ancient Rome made by French "Prix de Rome" architects from 1775 through 1925. Accompanied by text that explains how the Prix de Rome was awarded and the significance of the prize in the history of architecture, as well as how the study of ancient models formed the basis for nineteenth- and early twentieth-century architectural styles, these drawings provide an invaluable understanding of how the modern imagination recorded and transformed ancient fragments into a modern architectural idiom.
Author : J. Mérigot
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 18,22 MB
Release : 1831
Category : Italy
ISBN :
Author : Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani
Publisher :
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 40,52 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Rome (Italy)
ISBN :
Author : Cammy Brothers
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 38,23 MB
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0691193797
"An illuminating reassessment of the architect whose innovative drawings of ruins shaped the enduring image of ancient Rome"--
Author : MARIA. DEL SAPIO GARBERO
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,89 MB
Release : 2022-01-14
Category :
ISBN : 9780367559106
This is the first book of its kind to address Shakespeare's relationship with Rome's authoritative myth, archaeologically, by taking as a point of departure a chronological reversal, namely the vision of the 'eternal' city as a ruinous scenario.
Author : James J. O'Donnell
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 21,73 MB
Release : 2008-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0060787376
Recounts the sixth-century events and circumstances that led to the fall of the Roman Empire.
Author : Frank E. Salmon
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 23,77 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Charles Barry's victory in the competition to design the new Houses of Parliament in 1836 has been widely regarded as the moment in English architecture when the influence of Greece gave way to Victorian Gothic. In this beautifully illustrated book, Frank Salmon redirects attention to the importance of classical archaeology in the education of British architects and to major classically-inspired buildings in Birmingham, Cambridge, Liverpool and the City of London, also commissioned in this period.
Author : Paul Baxa
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 43,44 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802099955
In the 1930s, the Italian Fascist regime profoundly changed the landscape of Rome's historic centre, demolishing buildings and displacing thousands of Romans in order to display the ruins of the pre-Christian Roman Empire. This transformation is commonly interpreted as a failed attempt to harmonize urban planning with Fascism's ideological exaltation of the Roman Empire. Roads and Ruins argues that the chaotic Fascist cityscape, filled with traffic and crumbling ruins, was in fact a reflection of the landscape of the First World War. In the radical interwar transformation of Roman space, Paul Baxa finds the embodiment of the Fascist exaltation of speed and destruction, with both roads and ruins defining the cultural impulses at the heart of the movement. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, including war diaries, memoirs, paintings, films, and government archives, Roads and Ruins is a richly textured study that offers an original perspective on a well known story.
