The Sack of Rome, 1527
By: André Chastel ; translated from the French by Beth Archer.
Series: The A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts ;; 1977; Bollingen series ;; XXXV, 26; Bollingen series ;; 35, 26.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: Art -- Mutilation, defacement, etc. -- Italy -- Rome; Art, Renaissance -- Italy -- Rome; Rome (Italy) -- History -- Siege, 1527
Description: This richly illustrated study of the sack as a cultural and artistic phenomenon reveals the ambiguities of preceding events and the traumatic contrast between the flourishing world of art under Clement VII and the city as it existed after the troops of Emperor Charles V had looted Rome in 1527.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 289-312.
Translation of: Le sac de Rome, 1527.
Includes index.