Rome (Artistic Centers of the Italian Renaissance)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 18, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780521624459
Subjects: History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600; History - General; Art, Italian; Art & Art Instruction; Art; Rome; Italy; Art / General; Art patronage; General; Art, Renaissance; Popes
First sentence: MODERN ROME STRIKES ITS VISITORS AS A truly Eternal City, its imposing ancient ruins forever choked in a seething tide of buses, cars, and motor scooters, the Michelangelo-designed trapezoid of its civic center jostling the gleaming marble pile of the late nineteenth-century monument to King Victor Emmanuel II.