The Ruin of the Eternal City: Antiquity and Preservation in Renaissance Rome

The Ruin of the Eternal City: Antiquity and Preservation in Renaissance Rome
ISBN-10
0199877467
ISBN-13
9780199877461
Category
History
Pages
336
Language
English
Published
2011-04-29
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
David Karmon

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.

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