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The waters of Rome : aqueducts, fountains, and the birth of the Baroque city / Katherine Wentworth Rinne.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rinne, Katherine Wentworth, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aqueducts--Italy--Rome.
- Aqueducts.
- Fountains--Italy--Rome.
- Fountains.
- Technology--Social aspects--Italy--Rome--History.
- Technology.
- Water-supply--Italy--Rome--History.
- Water-supply.
- Buildings.
- Technology--Social aspects.
- Rome (Italy)--Buildings, structures, etc.
- Rome (Italy).
- Italy--Rome.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 262 pages) : 169 illustrations (some color), maps, plans
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Aqueducts, fountains, and the birth of the Baroque city
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2010.
- Summary:
- "In this pioneering study of the water infrastructure of Renaissance Rome, urban historian Katherine Rinne offers a new understanding of how technological and scientific developments in aqueduct and fountain architecture helped turn a medieval backwater into the preeminent city of early modern Europe. Supported by the author's extensive topographical research, this book presents a unified vision of the city that links improvements to public and private water systems with political, religious, and social change. Between 1560 and 1630, in a spectacular burst of urban renewal, Rome's religious and civil authorities sponsored the construction of aqueducts, private and public fountains for drinking, washing, and industry, and the magnificent ceremonial fountains that are Rome's glory. Tying together the technological, sociopolitical, and artistic questions that faced the designers during an age of turmoil in which the Catholic Church found its authority threatened and the infrastructure of the city was in a state of decay, Rinne shows how these public works projects transformed Rome in a successful marriage of innovative engineering and strategic urban planning"--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- The Tiber's flow
- The Acqua Vergine and the Renovatio Romae
- Surveying the city, distributing the water
- The fountains of Giacomo della Porta
- Undercurrents and water lust
- Irrigating the Seven Hills
- Trickle down : the hierarchy of water
- Currency of cardinals
- Streets and drains.
- Notes:
- Foundation for Landscape Studies John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize, 2011
- Society of Architectural Historians Spiro Kostof Book Award, 2012
- Description based on print record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on June 18, 2018).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300242812
- 0300242816
- OCLC:
- 1042080624
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