Modern Rome

Author : Italo Insolera
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527526785

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Modern Rome by Italo Insolera Pdf

After fifty years and fifteen editions and reprints in Italy, this classic, groundbreaking work in the field of historical urban studies is now published in English. A masterful, fluent narrative leads the reader through the last two centuries in the history of the Eternal City, capital of the Papal State, then of the united Italy, first under the monarchy and subsequently the republic. Rome’s chaotic growth and often ineffective urban planning, almost invariably overpowered by building speculation, can find an opportunity for future redemption in a vibrant multicultural society and the enhancement of an unequalled archaeological heritage with the ancient Appian Way as its spine. With respect to the last Italian edition of 2011, the volume is updated, enriched in text, indexes, maps and photographs. Historians, urban planners, architects, decision makers, university students, and anyone who is interested in one of the world’s most intriguing cities will enjoy this book.

Author : Jill Burke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351575706

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Art and Identity in Early Modern Rome by Jill Burke Pdf

From the late fifteenth to the late seventeenth century, Rome was one of the most vibrant and productive centres for the visual arts in the West. Artists from all over Europe came to the city to see its classical remains and its celebrated contemporary art works, as well as for the opportunity to work for its many wealthy patrons. They contributed to the eclecticism of the Roman artistic scene, and to the diffusion of 'Roman' artistic styles in Europe and beyond. Art and Identity in Early Modern Rome is the first book-length study to consider identity creation and artistic development in Rome during this period. Drawing together an international cast of key scholars in the field of Renaissance studies, the book adroitly demonstrates how the exceptional quality of Roman court and urban culture - with its elected 'monarchy', its large foreign population, and unique sense of civic identity - interacted with developments in the visual arts. With its distinctive chronological span and uniquely interdisciplinary approach, Art and Identity in Early Modern Rome puts forward an alternative history of the visual arts in early modern Rome, one that questions traditional periodisation and stylistic categorisation.

Author : Matthew Coneys Wainwright,Emily Michelson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004443495

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A Companion to Religious Minorities in Early Modern Rome by Matthew Coneys Wainwright,Emily Michelson Pdf

An examination of groups and individuals in Rome who were not Roman Catholic, or not born so. It demonstrates how other religions had a lasting impact on early modern Catholic institutions in Rome.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004391963

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A Companion to Early Modern Rome, 1492–1692 by Anonim Pdf

Winner of the 2011 Bainton Prize for Reference Works A Companion to Early Modern Rome, 1492-1692, edited by Pamela M. Jones, Barbara Wisch, and Simon Ditchfield, is a unique multidisciplinary study offering innovative analyses of a wide range of topics. The 30 chapters critique past and recent scholarship and identify new avenues for research.

Author : Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Papacy
ISBN : 9781465529411

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The Makers of Modern Rome (Complete) by Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant Pdf

Author : Karen J. Lloyd
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000636987

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Art, Patronage, and Nepotism in Early Modern Rome by Karen J. Lloyd Pdf

Drawing on rich archival research and focusing on works by leading artists including Guido Reni and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Karen J. Lloyd demonstrates that cardinal nephews in seventeenth-century Rome – those nephews who were raised to the cardinalate as princes of the Church – used the arts to cultivate more than splendid social status. Through politically savvy frescos and emotionally evocative displays of paintings, sculptures, and curiosities, cardinal nephews aimed to define nepotism as good Catholic rule. Their commissions took advantage of their unique position close to the pope, embedding the defense of their role into the physical fabric of authority, from the storied vaults of the Vatican Palace to the sensuous garden villas that fused business and pleasure in the Eternal City. This book uncovers how cardinal nephews crafted a seductively potent dialogue on the nature of power, fuelling the development of innovative visual forms that championed themselves as the indispensable heart of papal politics. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, early modern studies, religious history, and political history.

Author : Michael Herzfeld
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226329079

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Evicted from Eternity by Michael Herzfeld Pdf

Modern Rome is a city rife with contradictions. Once the seat of ancient glory, it is now often the object of national contempt. It plays a significant part on the world stage, but the concerns of its residents are often deeply parochial. And while they live in the seat of a world religion, Romans can be vehemently anticlerical. These tensions between the past and the present, the global and the local, make Rome fertile ground to study urban social life, the construction of the past, the role of religion in daily life, and how a capital city relates to the rest of the nation. Michael Herzfeld focuses on Rome’s historic Monti district and the wrenching dislocation caused by rapid economical, political, and social change. Evicted from Eternity tells the story of the gentrification of Monti—once the architecturally stunning home of a community of artisans and shopkeepers now displaced by an invasion of rapacious real estate speculators, corrupt officials, dithering politicians, deceptive clerics, and shady thugs. As Herzfeld picks apart the messy story of Monti’s transformation, he ranges widely over many aspects of life there and in the rest of the city, richly depicting the uniquely local landscape of globalization in Rome.

Author : Sandra R. Joshel,Margaret Malamud,Donald T. McGuire
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 0801882680

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Imperial Projections by Sandra R. Joshel,Margaret Malamud,Donald T. McGuire Pdf

, Martin M. Winkler, and Maria Wyke--Peter Bondanella, Indiana University "Classical Outlook"

Author : Frances Gage
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Art
ISBN : 0271071036

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Painting as Medicine in Early Modern Rome by Frances Gage Pdf

Through a study of the writings of the papal physician and art critic Giulio Mancini, explores early modern art collecting in Italy. Argues that art within domestic contexts was understood to create healthy bodies, minds, and societies through the mechanism of the imagination.

Author : Valerio Morucci
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781315304854

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Baronial Patronage of Music in Early Modern Rome by Valerio Morucci Pdf

This is the first dedicated study of the musical patronage of Roman baronial families in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Patronage – the support of a person or institution and their work by a patron – in Renaissance society was the basis of a complex network of familial and political relationships between clients and patrons, whose ideas, values, and norms of behavior were shared with the collective. Bringing to light new archival documentation, this book examines the intricate network of patronage interrelationships in Rome. Unlike other Italian cities where political control was monocentric and exercised by single rulers, sources of patronage in Rome comprised a multiplicity of courts and potential patrons, which included the pope, high prelates, nobles and foreign diplomats. Morucci uses archival records, and the correspondence of the Orsini and Colonna families in particular, to investigate the local activity and circulation of musicians and the cultivation of music within the broader civic network of Roman aristocratic families over the period. The author also shows that the familial union of the Medici and Orsini families established a bidirectional network for artistic exchange outside of the Eternal City, and that the Orsini-Colonna circle represented a musical bridge between Naples, Rome, and Florence.

Author : Margaret Malamud
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444305081

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Ancient Rome and Modern America by Margaret Malamud Pdf

Ancient Rome and Modern America explores the vital role thenarratives and images of Rome have played in America’sunderstanding of itself and its history. Places America’s response to Rome in a historicalcontext, from the Revolutionary era to the present Looks at portrayals of Rome in different media: writing,architecture, theatre, painting, World’s Fairs andExpositions, and film Beautifully illustrated with over 40 high quality photographsand figures

Author : Nicola Denzey Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108471893

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The Early Modern Invention of Late Antique Rome by Nicola Denzey Lewis Pdf

A new look at the Cult of the Saints in late antiquity: did it really dominate Christianity in late antique Rome?

Author : Felix Driver,David Gilbert
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003-10-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 071906497X

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Imperial Cities by Felix Driver,David Gilbert Pdf

The fifteen essays in this book explore the influence of imperialism in a range of urban centres, including London, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Marseilles, Glasgow and Seville. The first part on "imperial landscapes" is devoted to large-scale architectural schemes and monuments, including the Queen Victoria Memorial in London and the Vittoriano in Rome. In the second part, the focus is on imperial display throughout the city, from spectacular exhibitions and ceremonies, to more private displays of empire in suburban gardens. The final part considers the changing cultural and political identities in the imperial city, looking particularly at nationalism, masculinity and anti-imperialism.

Author : Cullen Murphy
Publisher : HMH
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780547527079

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Are We Rome? by Cullen Murphy Pdf

What went wrong in imperial Rome, and how we can avoid it: “If you want to understand where America stands in the world today, read this.” —Thomas E. Ricks The rise and fall of ancient Rome has been on American minds since the beginning of our republic. Depending on who’s doing the talking, the history of Rome serves as either a triumphal call to action—or a dire warning of imminent collapse. In this “provocative and lively” book, Cullen Murphy points out that today we focus less on the Roman Republic than on the empire that took its place, and reveals a wide array of similarities between the two societies (The New York Times). Looking at the blinkered, insular culture of our capitals; the debilitating effect of bribery in public life; the paradoxical issue of borders; and the weakening of the body politic through various forms of privatization, Murphy persuasively argues that we most resemble Rome in the burgeoning corruption of our government and in our arrogant ignorance of the world outside—two things that must be changed if we are to avoid Rome’s fate. “Are We Rome? is just about a perfect book. . . . I wish every politician would spend an evening with this book.” —James Fallows

Author : Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Adolescent psychology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011737421

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Ancient and Modern Rome by Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani Pdf