Title The hills of Rome : signature of an eternal city / Caroline Vout

Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource Contents Introduction: the journey to Rome -- The map -- The itinerary -- The 'take home' message -- The lie of the land -- The seven hills of Rome, republic and empire -- After the high Roman fashion -- The renaissance of the seven hills -- Nineteenth and twentieth-century encounters -- Seven is the magic number -- An invention of tradition -- The potency and possibility of the number seven -- Varro's contribution to the story -- Before the mountains were settled -- Rome, la città eterna -- The seven hills and the ambitions of empire -- Dizzy heights under the Flavians -- The rise and fall of Rome in late antiquity -- Postscript -- Painting by numbers -- The limits of representation -- The seven hills of renaissance artists and patrons -- Nineteenth-century ways of seeing -- On top of the world -- Villas and gardens -- In the thick of it -- Getting the measure of the whole of Rome -- Framing a view from the Capitoline or Palatine -- The imperial gaze -- Divine omniscience -- Signing off -- The history of an idea -- Geography as history Summary Explores the cliché of 'the city of seven hills' and how, since antiquity, it has shaped experience of the city Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject HISTORY -- Ancient -- Rome. Travel Hügel Rom Motiv Stadtbeschreibung Geschichtsbild Vedute Kunst Reisbeschrijvingen. Kunst. Rome (Italy) -- Description and travel. Rome -- History. Italy -- Rome Rome (Empire) Rom Rome. Genre/Form History Geschiedenis (vorm) Form Electronic book ISBN 9781139569323 1139569325 9781139198974 1139198971 9781139572880 1139572881

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