Author: James J. O'DonnellPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060787376
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Recounts the sixth-century events and circumstances that led to the fall of the Roman Empire.
The Ruin of the Roman Empire
Author: James J. O'DonnellPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060787376
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Recounts the sixth-century events and circumstances that led to the fall of the Roman Empire.
Ruins of Ancient Rome
Author: Roberto CassanelliPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892366804
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Traditionally a critical component of the education of any architect was to draw the ruins of ancient Rome, reconstructing either from ancient sources or, more often, pure fantasy, what the original structures must have looked like. From this training emerged generations of architects imbued with the aesthetic ideals that would form the Neoclassical and Beaux-Arts building styles. In this magnificently printed volume are reproduced some of the most extraordinarily handsome drawings of the ruins of ancient Rome made by French "Prix de Rome" architects from 1775 through 1925. Accompanied by text that explains how the Prix de Rome was awarded and the significance of the prize in the history of architecture, as well as how the study of ancient models formed the basis for nineteenth- and early twentieth-century architectural styles, these drawings provide an invaluable understanding of how the modern imagination recorded and transformed ancient fragments into a modern architectural idiom.
The Ruin of the Eternal City
Author: David KarmonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199766894
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
The Ruin of the Eternal City provides the first systematic analysis of the preservation practices of the popes, civic magistrates, and ordinary citizens of Renaissance Rome. This study offers a new understanding of historic preservation as it occurred during the extraordinary rebuilding of a great European capital city.
Shakespeare's Ruins and Myth of Rome
Author: MARIA. DEL SAPIO GARBEROPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780367559106
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This is the first book of its kind to address Shakespeare's relationship with Rome's authoritative myth, archaeologically, by taking as a point of departure a chronological reversal, namely the vision of the 'eternal' city as a ruinous scenario.
The Conquest of Ruins
Author: Julia HellPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022658819X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 633
Book Description
The Roman Empire has been a source of inspiration and a model for imitation for Western empires practically since the moment Rome fell. Yet, as Julia Hell shows in The Conquest of Ruins, what has had the strongest grip on aspiring imperial imaginations isn’t that empire’s glory but its fall—and the haunting monuments left in its wake. Hell examines centuries of European empire-building—from Charles V in the sixteenth century and Napoleon’s campaigns of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries to the atrocities of Mussolini and the Third Reich in the 1930s and ’40s—and sees a similar fascination with recreating the Roman past in the contemporary image. In every case—particularly that of the Nazi regime—the ruins of Rome seem to represent a mystery to be solved: how could an empire so powerful be brought so low? Hell argues that this fascination with the ruins of greatness expresses a need on the part of would-be conquerors to find something to ward off a similar demise for their particular empire.
The Ruin of Roman Britain
Author: James GerrardPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107038634
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
This book employs new archaeological and historical evidence to explain how and why Roman Britain became Anglo-Saxon England.
The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome
Author: Edward J. WattsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197691951
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome tells the story of 2200 years of the use and misuse of the idea of Roman decline by ambitious politicians, authors, and autocrats as well as the people scapegoated and victimized in the name of Roman renewal. It focuses on the long history of a way of describing change that might seem innocuous, but which has cost countless people their lives, liberty, or property across two millennia.
The Marvels of Rome, Or a Picture of the Golden City
Author: Francis Morgan NicholsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rome (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The Roman History, from the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth... New Ed
Author: Nathaniel HookeThe Ruins Lesson
Author: Susan StewartPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022663261X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
How have ruins become so valued in Western culture and so central to our art and literature? Covering a vast chronological and geographical range, from ancient Egyptian inscriptions to twentieth-century memorials, Susan Stewart seeks to answer this question as she traces the appeal of ruins and ruins images, and the lessons that writers and artists have drawn from their haunting forms. Stewart takes us on a sweeping journey through founding legends of broken covenants and original sin, the Christian appropriation of the classical past, and images of decay in early modern allegory. Stewart looks in depth at the works of Goethe, Piranesi, Blake, and Wordsworth, each of whom found in ruins a means of reinventing his art. Lively and engaging, The Ruins Lesson ultimately asks what can resist ruination—and finds in the self-transforming, ever-fleeting practices of language and thought a clue to what might truly endure.