Hills of Rome - Signature of an Eternal City

Informationen zum Autor Caroline Vout is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ's College and the Society of Antiquaries of London. She is a historian and art historian who publishes on a wide range of topics related to Greek and Roman art and its reception, Latin literature and Roman history and is the author of Power and Eroticism in Imperial Rome (Cambridge, 2007). In 2009 she was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for her work on art history and in 2010 was the Hugh Last Fellow at the British School at Rome. Klappentext This book explores the cliché of 'the city of seven hills' and how, since antiquity, it has shaped experience of the city. Zusammenfassung Rome is 'the city of seven hills'. This book explores what is at stake in this cliché and how it has helped countless people think about Rome holistically. Embracing evidence from Varro, Virgil and Claudian to sixteenth-century frescoes and nineteenth-century engravings, it proposes a new way of seeing the city. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: the journey to Rome; 2. The lie of the land; 3. Seven is the magic number; 4. Rome, la città eterna; 5. Painting by numbers; 6. On top of the world; 7. Signing off.

Product details

• Authors: Caroline Vout, Vout Caroline
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.09.2012
• EAN: 9781107025974
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02597-4
• Dimensions: 182 mm x 255 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book; Cultural Studies, European History, Landscape art & architecture, HISTORY / General, Italy, History of Art, Classical history / classical civilisation, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology, Art & Design Styles: Classicism, Mosaics: artworks