Rome Is Love Spelled Backward : : Enjoying Art and Architecture in the Eternal City /

Rome Is Love Spelled Backward : : Enjoying Art and Architecture in the Eternal City / / Judith Testa.

A celebration of the art, architecture, and timeless human passion of the Eternal City, Rome Is Love Spelled Backward explores Rome's best-known treasures, often revealing secrets overlooked in conventional guidebooks. With the ancient play on "Roma" and "Amor"—ROMAMOR—Testa...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Testa, Judith,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]
©1998
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (303 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Map of Rome
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • PART I ·ANCIENT ROME
  • 1 The Roman Forum
  • 2 The Ara Pacis Augustae
  • 3 The Colosseum
  • 4 When Rome Ruled the World
  • 5 The Pantheon
  • 6 Castel Sant' Angelo
  • 7 The Baths of Caracalla and of Diocletian
  • 8 The Walls of Mighty Rome
  • 9 Rome's Indispensable Aqueducts
  • PART II · EARLY CHRISTIAN AND MEDIEVAL ROME
  • 10 The Christian Catacombs
  • 11 The Jewish Catacombs
  • 12 St. John Lateran
  • 13 S. Maria Maggiore
  • 14 S. Prassede
  • 15 S. Clemente
  • PART III · LATE MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE ROME
  • 16 S. Maria sopra Minerva
  • 17 Pope Julius II
  • 18 Raphael in Rome: The Vatican Frescoes
  • 19 Raphael in Rome: The Villa Farnesina
  • 20 Leo X and Clement VII
  • 21 Pope Paul III and His Art Patronage
  • 22 St. Peter's
  • 23 The Sistine Chapel
  • 24 Michelangelo's Last Judgment
  • 25 The Rome ofSt. Ignatius Loyola
  • 26 Pope Sixtus V and His Urban Planning
  • PART IV · BAROQYE ROME
  • 27 Caravaggio
  • 28 Caravaggio Up Close
  • 29 Gianlorenzo Bernini
  • 30 Bernini at St. Peter's
  • 31 The Architecture of Francesco Borromini
  • 32 The Trevi Fountain
  • PART V · MODERN ROME
  • 33 The Quartiere Coppede
  • 34 Mussolini's "Third Rome"
  • 35 The Shrines of Rome's Modern Martyrs
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index
  • About the Author

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