Main entry:

Maier, Jessica, author.

Title & Author:

Rome measured and imagined : early modern maps of the Eternal City / Jessica Maier.

Publication:

©2015
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Description:

xii, 276 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. "Icarus spreading his wings" : the early modern city brought to life -- Chapter one. Toward a new city image : Leon Battista Alberti's Descriptio Urbis Romae (ca. 1450) and Francesco Rosselli's Lost View of Rome (ca. 1458-90) -- Late medieval origins -- Alberti's Survey of Rome -- Rosselli's Rome in twelve sheets -- Chapter two. 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 -- Pictorialism revisited -- Chapter three. Syntheses : Leonardo Bufalini's plan of Rome (1551) -- Origins, form, and function of 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 four. 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 five. "Before the eyes of the whole world" : the city writ large, 1593-1676 -- Antonio Tempesta's Prospectus and its progeny : painterly approaches to the reenergized city -- Matteo Greuter, Giovanni Battistia Falda, and architectural approaches to seventeenth-century Rome -- Epilogue. The Eternal City measured and imagined.

Summary:

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. In Rome Measured and Imagined, Jessica Maier explores the history of this genre - which merged the accuracy of scientific endeavor with the imaginative aspects of art - during the rise of Renaissance print culture. Through an exploration of works dating from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, her book interweaves the story of the city portrait with that of Rome itself.

Resources:
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9780226127637 (cloth ; alk. paper)
022612763X (cloth ; alk. paper)
(e-book)
9780226127774
022612777X (e-book)
9780226127774 (e-book)

Subject:

Bibel Römerbrief
Cartography Italy Rome.
Cartographie Italie Rome.
Cartography
Travel
Kartografie
Stadtplan
Kartografi.
Resor.
Kartor.
Rome (Italy) Maps.
Rome (Italy) Description and travel.
Rome (Italie) Descriptions et voyages.
Italy Rome
Italien
Italien Rom.

Form/genre:

Maps
Cartes géographiques.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 289971
Call No.: BIB 232696
Status: Available