Rome: A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History

Rome: A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History

From Robert Hughes, one of the greatest art and cultural critics of our time, comes a sprawling, comprehensive, and deeply personal history of Romeâ€”as a city, as an empire, and as an origin of Western art and civilization.
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Starting on a personal note, Hughes takes us to the Rome he first encountered as a hungry twenty-one-year-old fresh from Australia in 1959. From there, he goes back more than two thousand years to the cityâ€™s foundation, one mired in mythologies and superstitions that would inform Romeâ€™s development for centuries. He explores in rich detail the formation of empire, the rise of early Christianity, the Crusades, the Renaissance, and takes us up to the present, through the rise and fall of Mussoliniâ€™s fascism. Equal parts idolizing, blasphemous, outraged, and awestruck, Rome is a portrait of the Eternal City as only Robert Hughes could paint it.

Country	USA
Brand	Vintage
Manufacturer	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
PartNumber	9780375711688
Color	Black
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Height	8
Length	5.19
Weight	1.15081300764
Width	1.16
ReleaseDate	2012-10-30
NumberOfItems	1

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