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Rome: A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History

By Robert Hughes

Book information

Publisher
Knopf
Year
2011
ISBN
0307268446, 9780307268440
LCC
DG808 .H84 2011
Open Library ID
OL25156528M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
21 MB (22256382 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
\0
Topic
History
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00
Исторические дисциплины;Всемирная история;История

Description

From Robert Hughes, one of the greatest art and cultural critics of our time, comes a sprawling, comprehensive, and deeply personal history of Rome—as city, as empire, and, crucially, as an origin of Western art and civilization, two subjects about which Hughes has spent his life writing and thinking. Starting on a personal note, Hughes takes us to the Rome he first encountered as a hungry twenty-one-year-old fresh from Australia in 1959. From that exhilarating portrait, he takes us back more than two thousand years to the citys foundation, one mired in mythologies and superstitions that would inform Romes development for centuries.

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