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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
David E Karmon |
ISBN: | 0199766894 9780199766895 |
OCLC Number: | 754175041 |
Description: | ix, 320 p. : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction ; New approaches to preservation problems ; Note on terminology ; Acknowledgments ; PART I ; Chapter 1: Preservation Practices in Ancient and Medieval Rome ; Chapter 2: Inventing a Preservation Program in Fifteenth-Century Rome ; Chapter 3: A Sixteenth-Century Meteor in the Roman Forum ; PART II ; Chapter 4: The Colosseum ; Chapter 5: The Pantheon ; Chapter 6: The Ponte Santa Maria ; Conclusion: rethinking preservation practices in Renaissance Rome ; Appendix of archival documents ; Sources and works cited |
Responsibility: | David Karmon. |
Abstract:
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.
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... attractive and well-illustrated ... * T. Corey Brennan, Times Literary Supplement *
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