Rome is 'the city of seven hills'. This book examines the need for the 'seven hills' clich???, its origins, development, impact and borrowing. It explores how the clich??? relates to Rome's real volcanic terrain and how it is fundamental to how we define this. Its chronological remit is capacious: Varro, Virgil and Claudian at one end, on, through the work of Renaissance antiquarians, to embrace frescoes and nineteenth-century engravings. These artists and authors celebrated the hills and the views from these hills, in an ...
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Rome is 'the city of seven hills'. This book examines the need for the 'seven hills' clich???, its origins, development, impact and borrowing. It explores how the clich??? relates to Rome's real volcanic terrain and how it is fundamental to how we define this. Its chronological remit is capacious: Varro, Virgil and Claudian at one end, on, through the work of Renaissance antiquarians, to embrace frescoes and nineteenth-century engravings. These artists and authors celebrated the hills and the views from these hills, in an attempt to capture Rome holistically. By studying their efforts, this book confronts the problems of encapsulating Rome and 'cityness' more broadly and indeed the artificiality of any representation, whether a painting, poem or map. In this sense, it is not a history of the city at any one moment in time, but a history of how the city has been, and has to be, perceived.
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Like New in Very Good jacket. Size: 7x0x9; A firm and square hardback with sharp corners and strong joints, complete with original dustjacket, just showing a few very minor rubs. Hence a non-text page has a small 'damaged' stamp. Despite such this book is actually in nearly new condition. Thus the contents are crisp, fresh and tight. Also, no pen-marks and not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Now offered for sale at a very sensible price.
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New. Trade paperback (US). 320 p. 1 Plates, color; 1 Maps; 26 Halftones, color; 57 Halftones, black and white; 15 Line drawings, black and white. Intended for professional and scholarly audience.
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New. Trade paperback (US). 320 p. 1 Plates, color; 1 Maps; 26 Halftones, color; 57 Halftones, black and white; 15 Line drawings, black and white. Intended for professional and scholarly audience.
