Access Today Rome: And The Vatican City Designed By Brigitte Hintzen-Bohlen In Text

read. Read onlypages concerning Roman republic and empire A truly colossal work for a colossal city, it is no small feat to fit the entire art history of Rome into a single volume.
This is no guidebook, but can preferably be read on return from Rome when one is familiar with most of the sites.
The book suffers slightly from lack of coherence from one author to the next and not putting developments in context with the rest of the world.
Rome feels quite isolated, having received no influences from the outside and having little impact on the rest of the world, which is quite strange.
Furthermore the book goes quite rapidly through the last two centuries of the last millennium, omitting large developments such as the EUR quarter.
The volume weighs several kilos and if nothing else gives you six pack abs if used as a bedside reading.
Good overview of things to see in Rome with pretty pictures amp great maps, but lost credibility with me by leaving out the architectural disaster of Bernini St.
Peter's bell towers. Rome: Art and Architecture is a splendidpage book about, well, the art and architecture of Rome from early antiquity to the midtwentieth century.
Printed on heavy paper and featuring lots of gorgeous photos as well as wellwritten historical backgrounds, it tells the reader everything he/she wishes to know about ancient Roman mosaics, the tombs of the early Christians, mediaeval churches, Renaissance fountains, murals and paintings and what have you.
I will definitely

read it again before my next trip to Rome, as it's full of stunning places to visit which are just off the beaten track.
What an unbelievable city, and what a great way to get to know it, . . Man kann es ja schlecht als Reiseführer mitnehmen, aber vor oder nach einem Ybesuch in Rom detailliert nachlesen Rome: Art amp Architecture unfolds the magnificent panorama of the Eternal City, long recognized as the cultural capital of Europe, before the readers' eyes.
Even into the twentieth century, artists from every corner of the globe were magically drawn to Rome, which served as their model and inspiration.
The great epochs of occidental art are introduced, with the myriad masterpieces that have been created here serving as illustrations.
The city is home to an inexhaustible supply of treasures from every area of the fine arts, Readers can follow the development of Rome and its artworks throughout the centuries indeed, the course of Western civilization is reflected in the history of this monumental city.
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