An architectural history in 400 individual presentations
Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, PB, Format (B × H): 222 mm x 162 mm
ISBN: 978-3-936681-16-1
Verlag: Edition Axel Menges
Architects and artists have always acknowledged over the centuries
that Rome is rightly called the »eternal city«. Rome is eternal
above all because it was always young, always »in its prime«. Here
the buildings that defined the West appeared over more than 2000
years, here the history of European architecture was written.
The foundations were laid even in ancient Roman times, when
the first attempts were made to design interiors and thus make
space open to experience as something physical. And at that time
the Roman architects also started to develop building types that
are still valid today, thus creating the cornerstone of later Western
architecture. In it Rome’s primacy remained unbroken – whether
it was with old St. Peter’s as the first medieval basilica or new
St. Peter’s as the building in which Bramante and Michelangelo
developed the High Renaissance, or with works by Bernini and
Borromini whose rich and lucid spatial forms were to shape Baroque
as far as Vienna, Bohemia and Lower Franconia, and also
with Modern buildings, of which there are many unexpected pearls
to be found in Rome.
All this is comprehensible only if it is presented historically, i. e.
in chronological sequence, and therefore the guide has not been
arranged topographically as usual but chronologically. This means
that one is not led in random sequence from a Baroque building to
an ancient or a modern one, but the historical development is followed
successively. Every epoch is preceded by an introduction
that identifies its key features. This produces a continuous, lavishly
illustrated history of the architecture of Rome – and thus at the
same time of the whole of the West. Practical handling is guaranteed
by an alphabetical index and detailed maps, whose information
does not just immediately illustrate the historical picture, but
also makes it possible to choose a personal route through history.
In order to clarify the historical development, the key buildings of
each period and other major works are especially emphasized
both in the text and on the maps.
The authors are a group of art historians who experienced
Rome together years ago and then went their separate ways: as
an on-the-spot guide, as research scholars at the University of
Munich, and at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich
and the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, respectively, as Professor
at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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that Rome is rightly called the »eternal city«. Rome is eternal
above all because it was always young, always »in its prime«. Here
the buildings that defined the West appeared over more than 2000
years, here the history of European architecture was written.
The foundations were laid even in ancient Roman times, when
the first attempts were made to design interiors and thus make
space open to experience as something physical. And at that time
the Roman architects also started to develop building types that
are still valid today, thus creating the cornerstone of later Western
architecture. In it Rome’s primacy remained unbroken – whether
it was with old St. Peter’s as the first medieval basilica or new
St. Peter’s as the building in which Bramante and Michelangelo
developed the High Renaissance, or with works by Bernini and
Borromini whose rich and lucid spatial forms were to shape Baroque
as far as Vienna, Bohemia and Lower Franconia, and also
with Modern buildings, of which there are many unexpected pearls
to be found in Rome.
All this is comprehensible only if it is presented historically, i. e.
in chronological sequence, and therefore the guide has not been
arranged topographically as usual but chronologically. This means
that one is not led in random sequence from a Baroque building to
an ancient or a modern one, but the historical development is followed
successively. Every epoch is preceded by an introduction
that identifies its key features. This produces a continuous, lavishly
illustrated history of the architecture of Rome – and thus at the
same time of the whole of the West. Practical handling is guaranteed
by an alphabetical index and detailed maps, whose information
does not just immediately illustrate the historical picture, but
also makes it possible to choose a personal route through history.
In order to clarify the historical development, the key buildings of
each period and other major works are especially emphasized
both in the text and on the maps.
The authors are a group of art historians who experienced
Rome together years ago and then went their separate ways: as
an on-the-spot guide, as research scholars at the University of
Munich, and at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich
and the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, respectively, as Professor
at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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