Rome Measured and Imagined: Early Modern Maps of the Eternal City

by Jessica Maier

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022612763X
• ISBN13: 9780226127637
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.2" x 10.3"