Title: Rome : a cultural, visual, and personal history /
Authors: Hughes, Robert, 1938-
Publisher: Knopf,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Rome (Italy) History.; Rome (Italy) Civilization.
Abstract: From Robert Hughes, one of the greatest art and cultural critics of our time, comes a sprawling, comprehensive, and deeply personal history of Rome--as city, as empire, and, crucially, as an origin of Western art and civilization covering the span from the city's origins more than two thousand years ago through the twentieth century.
Contents: Foundation -- Augustus -- Later Empire -- Pagans versus Christians -- Medieval Rome and Avignon -- Renaissance -- Rome in the Seventeenth century -- High Baroque (Bernini, Borromini, etc.) -- Eighteenth-century Rome, Neo-classicism, and the Grand Tour -- The Nineteenth century L orthodoxy versus modernity -- Futurism and Fascism -- Rome recaptured.