Rome measured and imagined : early modern maps of the Eternal City / Jessica Maier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maier, Jessica, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cartography--Italy--Rome.

Cartography.

Rome (Italy)--Maps.

Rome (Italy).

Rome (Italy)--Description and travel.

Travel.

Italy--Rome.

Genre:

Maps.

Physical Description:

xii, 276 pages : illustrations, maps, plates ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Toward a New City Image: Leon Battista Alberti's Descriptio urbis Romae (ca. 1450) and Francesco Rosselli's Lost View of Rome (ca. 1485-90) 19

Late Medieval Origins 20

Alberti's Survey of Rome 25

Rosselli's Rome in Twelve Sheets 31

Chapter 2 Putting Rome into Drawing: The Lessons of Architecture and Antiquity in the Early 1500s 49

Raphael's Call to Preserve, Measure, and Draw the Ruins 51

Raphael's Larger Goals and Audience 57

Drawn from the Grave: Illustrated Works on Ancient Rome after Raphael 60

Pictonalism Revisited 70

Chapter 3 Syntheses: Leonardo Bufalini's Plan of Rome (15 51) 77

Origins, Form, and Function of Bufalini's Plan 79

Bufalini's Background and Intended Audience 86

Bufalini and the Art of Surveying 91

Ancient and Modern in Bufalini's Map 96

The Early Reception and Influence of Bufalini's Map 108

The Modern Reception of Bufalini's Map 117

Chapter 4 Antitheses: Ancient and Modern Rome in Sixteenth-Century Imagery 119

Bartolomeo Marliani, Pirro Ligorio, and the "Memory of Ancient Things" 120

Stefano Du Perac, the Ancient Forma urbis, and the City Renewed 133

Mario Cartaro and the Paragone of Ancient and Modern 143

Roman Print Culture, Dissemination, and the Market 152

Chapter 5 "Before the Eyes of the Whole World": The City Writ Large, - 163

Antonio Tempesta's Prospectus and Its Progeny: Painterly Approaches to the Reenergized City 167

Matteo Greuter, Giovanni Battista Falda, and Architectural Approaches to Seventeenth-Century Rome 190.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226127637

022612763X

9780226127774

022612777X

OCLC:

881824366