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The Sack of Rome, 1527 / André Chastel ; translated from the French by Beth Archer.
Van Pelt Library DG812.12 .C4813 1982
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chastel, André, 1912-1990.
- Series:
- Bollingen series ; 35.
- A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts ; 26.
- Bollingen series ; 35. The A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts ; 26
- Standardized Title:
- Sac de Rome, 1527. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Art--Mutilation, defacement, etc--Italy--Rome.
- Art.
- Art, Renaissance--Italy--Rome.
- Art, Renaissance.
- Art--Mutilation, defacement, etc.
- Italy--Rome.
- Rome (Italy)--Siege, 1527.
- Rome (Italy).
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 321 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1982]
- Summary:
- This richly illustrated study of the sack as a cultural and artistic phenomenon reveals the ambiguities of preceding events and the traumatic contrast between the flourishing world of art under Clement VII and the city as it existed after the troops of Emperor Charles V had looted Rome in 1527.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Le sac de Rome, 1527.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 289-312.
- ISBN:
- 0691099472 :
- OCLC:
- 249169788
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