Rome measured and imagined : early modern maps of the Eternal City /
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| Author / Creator: | Maier, Jessica, author. |
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| Imprint: | Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015. |
| Description: | xii, 276 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Local Note: | University of Chicago Library's copy 2 has dust jacket. |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10308063 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction "Icarus Spreading His Wings": The Early Modern City Brought to Life
- Chapter 1. Toward a New City Image: Leon Battista Alberti's Descriptio urbis Romae (ca. 1450) and Francesco Rosselli's Lost View of Rome (ca. 1485-90)
- Late Medieval Origins
- Alberti's Survey of Rome
- Rosselli's Rome in Twelve Sheets
- Chapter 2. Putting Rome into Drawing: The Lessons of Architecture and Antiquity in the Early 1500s
- Raphael's Call to Preserve, Measure, and Draw the Ruins
- Raphael's Larger Goals and Audience
- Drawn from the Grave: Illustrated Works on Ancient Rome after Raphael
- Pictonalism Revisited
- Chapter 3. Syntheses: Leonardo Bufalini's Plan of Rome (15 51)
- Origins, Form, and Function of Bufalini's Plan
- Bufalini's Background and Intended Audience
- Bufalini and the Art of Surveying
- Ancient and Modern in Bufalini's Map
- The Early Reception and Influence of Bufalini's Map
- The Modern Reception of Bufalini's Map
- Chapter 4. Antitheses: Ancient and Modern Rome in Sixteenth-Century Imagery
- Bartolomeo Marliani, Pirro Ligorio, and the "Memory of Ancient Things"
- Stefano Du Perac, the Ancient Forma urbis, and the City Renewed
- Mario Cartaro and the Paragone of Ancient and Modern
- Roman Print Culture, Dissemination, and the Market
- Chapter 5. "Before the Eyes of the Whole World": The City Writ Large, 1503รน1676
- Antonio Tempesta's Prospectus and Its Progeny: Painterly Approaches to the Reenergized City
- Matteo Greuter, Giovanni Battista Falda, and Architectural Approaches to Seventeenth-Century Rome
- Epilogue: The Eternal City Measured and Imagined
- Notes
- Index
