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

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

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, maps Contents Introduction. "Icarus spreading his wings" : the early modern city brought to life -- Chapter one. Toward a new city image : Leon Battista Alberti's Descriptio Urbis Romae (ca. 1450) and Francesco Rosselli's Lost View of Rome (ca. 1458-90) -- Late medieval origins -- Alberti's Survey of Rome -- Rosselli's Rome in twelve sheets -- Chapter two. Putting Rome into drawing : the lessons of architecture and antiquity in the early 1500s -- Raphael's call to preserve, measure and draw the ruins -- Raphael's larger goals and audience -- Drawn from the grave : illustrated works on Ancient Rome after Raphael -- Pictorialism revisited -- Chapter three. Syntheses : Leonardo Bufalini's plan of Rome (1551) -- Origins, form, and function of Bufalini's background and intended audience -- Bufalini and the art of surveying -- Ancient and modern in Bufalini's map -- The early reception and influence of Bufalini's map -- The modern reception of Bufalini's map -- Chapter four. Antitheses : Ancient and Modern Rome in sixteenth-century imagery -- Bartolomeo Marliani, Pirro Ligorio, and the "memory of ancient things" -- Stefano Du Perac, the ancient Forma urbis, and the city renewed -- Mario Cartaro and the Paragone of ancient and modern -- Roman print culture, dissemination, and the market -- Chapter five. "Before the eyes of the whole world" : the city writ large, 1593-1676 -- Antonio Tempesta's Prospectus and its progeny : painterly approaches to the reenergized city -- Matteo Greuter, Giovanni Battistia Falda, and architectural approaches to seventeenth-century Rome -- Epilogue. The Eternal City measured and imagined Summary At the turn of the 15th century, Rome was in the midst of a dramatic transformation from what the 14th-century poet Petrarch had termed a 'crumbling city' populated by 'broken ruins' into a prosperous Christian capital. Scholars, artists, architects, and engineers fascinated by Rome were spurred to develop new graphic modes for depicting the city - and the genre known as the city portrait exploded. In 'Rome Measured and Imagined', Jessica Maier explores the history of this genre - which merged the accuracy of scientific endeavor with the imaginative aspects of art - during the rise of Renaissance print culture Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Cartography -- Italy -- Rome REFERENCE -- Atlases & Gazetteers. TRAVEL -- Maps & Road Atlases. Cartography Travel Kartografi. Resor. Kartor. SUBJECT Rome (Italy) -- Maps Rome (Italy) -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115193 Subject Italy -- Rome Italien -- Rom. Genre/Form Maps Maps. Cartes géographiques. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780226127774 022612777X

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