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Rome Measured and Imagined: Early Modern Maps of the Eternal City
Jessica Maier
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"In this imaginative, meticulous book, Maier explores the world of early modern maps of Rome, from Alberti’s treatise on cartography (c. 1450) to the 18th-century enterprises of Nolli, Vasi, and Piranesi. Rome, “the quintessential palimpsest,&
At the turn of the fifteenth century, Rome was in the midst of a dramatic transformation from what the fourteenth-century poet Petrarch had termed a “crumbling city” populated by “broken ruins” into a prosperous Christian capital. Scholars, artists, architects, and engineers fascinated by Rome were spurred to develop new graphic modes for depicting the city—and the genre known as the city portrait exploded.
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