The Virtual Tourist in Renaissance Rome: Printing and Collecting the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae

by David Karmon and Nina Dubin

In 1540 Antonio Lafreri, a native of Besan on transplanted to Rome, began publishing maps and other printed images that depicted major monuments and antiquities in Rome. These prints--of statues and ruined landscapes, inscriptions and ornaments, reconstructed monuments and urban denizens--evoked ancient Rome and appealed to the taste for classical antiquity that defined the Renaissance. Collections of these prints came to be known as the Speculum...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0943056373
• ISBN13: 9780943056371
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: University of Chicago Library
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.1" x 10.9"