Rome
Subtitle: a cultural, visual, and personal history
By: Robert Hughes
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf; Knopf
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 498
ISBN-13: 9780307268440
Subjects: History
Description: 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.
Notes: "A Borzoi book."

Includes bibliographical references.