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The Eternal City: A History of Rome in Maps de Jessica Maier

The Eternal City: A History of Rome in Maps

Autor Jessica Maier
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 noi 2020

După parcurgerea acestui volum, cititorul va putea descifra straturile istorice suprapuse ale capitalei italiene, înțelegând cum reprezentările vizuale au modelat identitatea orașului de-a lungul a trei milenii. Notăm cu interes abordarea Jessica Maier, care nu se limitează la o simplă cronologie, ci propune o explorare a zece „Rome” diferite, fiecare definită de hărțile și arta epocii sale. Reținem că volumul transformă cartografia dintr-un instrument pur tehnic într-o fereastră spre mentalitățile trecutului.

Considerăm că structura capitolelor este deosebit de echilibrată, ghidând cititorul de la formarea zidurilor cetății și districtele urbane ale antichității, până la Roma pelerinilor, a sfinților și a turiștilor din perioada „Grand Tour”. Fiecare secțiune este susținută de reproduceri de o calitate excepțională, de la gravuri renascentiste la planuri de masă moderne. Această bogăție vizuală completează Rome: Continuing Encounters between Past and Present de Dorigen Caldwell; în timp ce volumul lui Caldwell se concentrează pe studii interdisciplinare despre evoluția urbană, The Eternal City aduce în plus componenta cartografică specifică, oferind o perspectivă spațială clară asupra transformărilor.

Progresia narativă este fluidă, alternând între analiza academică a surselor și poveștile umane din spatele hărților. Stilul curat și uman al autoarei, evidențiat și de critică, face ca informațiile complexe despre arheologie și urbanism să fie accesibile. Este o lucrare de referință care reușește să sintetizeze realitatea fizică a orașului cu ideea simbolică de „cetate eternă”.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226591452
ISBN-10: 022659145X
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 140 color plates
Dimensiuni: 216 x 279 x 23 mm
Greutate: 1.16 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte pasionaților de istorie și cartografie care doresc să vadă Roma dincolo de fațadele monumentelor celebre. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere vizuală profundă a modului în care orașul a fost reinventat constant. Este un instrument esențial pentru cei care vor să exploreze legătura dintre spațiul geografic și memoria istorică, oferind un context vizual rar întâlnit în ghidurile tradiționale.

Despre autor

Jessica Maier este profesor asociat de istoria artei la Mount Holyoke College. Specializarea sa în istoria vizuală și cartografie îi permite să abordeze subiectul Romei cu o rigoare academică dublată de o sensibilitate artistică remarcabilă. Prin activitatea sa, Maier explorează modul în care hărțile au servit nu doar ca instrumente de navigație, ci și ca declarații politice și culturale, transformând datele spațiale în narațiuni istorice captivante.

Descriere scurtă

One of the most visited places in the world, Rome attracts millions of tourists each year to walk its storied streets and see famous sites like the Colosseum, St. Peter’s Basilica, and the Trevi Fountain. Yet this ancient city’s allure is due as much to its rich, unbroken history as to its extraordinary array of landmarks. Countless incarnations and eras merge in the Roman cityscape. With a history spanning nearly three millennia, no other place can quite match the resilience and reinventions of the aptly nicknamed Eternal City.

In this unique and visually engaging book, Jessica Maier considers Rome through the eyes of mapmakers and artists who have managed to capture something of its essence over the centuries. Viewing the city as not one but ten “Romes,” she explores how the varying maps and art reflect each era’s key themes. Ranging from modest to magnificent, the images comprise singular aesthetic monuments like paintings and grand prints as well as more popular and practical items like mass-produced tourist plans, archaeological surveys, and digitizations. The most iconic and important images of the city appear alongside relatively obscure, unassuming items that have just as much to teach us about Rome’s past. Through 140 full-color images and thoughtful overviews of each era, Maier provides an accessible, comprehensive look at Rome’s many overlapping layers of history in this landmark volume.

The first English-language book to tell Rome’s rich story through its maps, The Eternal City beautifully captures the past, present, and future of one of the most famous and enduring places on the planet.

Notă biografică

Jessica Maier is associate professor of art history at Mount Holyoke College. She is the author of Rome Measured and Imagined: Early Modern Maps of the Eternal City, also published by University of Chicago Press.

Cuprins

Introduction: Rome as Idea and Reality
Further Reading

Chapter One: Rome Takes Shape
Rome before Rome
A Walled City
Urban Districting
Further Reading

Chapter Two: Rome of the Caesars
Destination Rome
An Incomplete Puzzle
Making Sense of the Shattered Past
Filling in the Gaps
A Model City
Further Reading

Chapter Three: Rome of the Popes
Sacred Buildings and Secular Symbols
The Medieval Cityscape
Pathos and Wonder
Further Reading

Chapter Four: Rome Reborn
A City Ready for Its Close-Up
The City Seen through a Wide-Angle Lens
The City Measured
A Panoramic View of Urban Revitalization
Further Reading

Chapter Five: Rome of the Scholars
Archaeology in Its Infancy
An Ancient Roman Theme Park
A Ghostly Fantasy
Further Reading

Chapter Six: Rome of the Saints and Pilgrims
The Way of the Faithful
Scenes from a Pilgrimage
A Pilgrimage Map for the Modern Era
Further Reading

Chapter Seven: Rome of the Grand Tourists
Rome as Theater
The Origins of the Tourist Plan
Rome Surveyed
A Panoramic Vision
Further Reading

Chapter Eight: Rome of the Mass Tourists
The Guidebook Impresario’s Rome
Rome for a Rather Important Woman Traveler
Rome in Your Pocket
Rome for Italian Tourists
Further Reading

Chapter Nine: Rome Enters the Modern Age
2,500 Years in, a Master Plan for Rome
When Trams Ruled Rome
An Olympic City, and a New Beginning
Further Reading

Chapter Ten: Rome Past, Present, and Future
Rapid Transit for a Rapidly Changing City
A Master Plan for the Third Millennium: (Un)sustainable Rome
Further Reading
 
Acknowledgments
Index

Recenzii

"The Ruins Lesson makes one point above all: there was no single dominant way of observing ancient ruins and portraying what remained. Jessica Maier’s The Eternal City: A History of Rome in Maps provides a rich complementary account. . . . For centuries, as she shows, mapmakers and miniaturists, antiquarians and cartographers set out to do exactly what he thought impossible: to represent at least in part not only the city of Rome, but some of the ways in which it had changed over time."

“No other city has maintained the story of its past in its present quite like Rome, creating an intentional palimpsest through incessant acts of preservation, reconstruction, and cartographic visualization. Maier’s lively, imaginatively organized, and accessible book displays how centuries of maps not only tell stories about the city’s physical development but also show how Rome’s narratives of itself—conflating eras, resituating buildings, compressing waterways—unfurled in self-mapping from antiquity to the Metro.”

"Jessica Maier’s The Eternal City: A History of Rome in Maps is a luxurious volume, elegantly and enthusiastically written, and richly illustrated with 140 well-curated color images of artwork, including maps of Rome across the ages. Maier’s primary aim is to explore the history of Rome through its cartography, and she contextualizes the maps within their historical, socio-cultural, religious, and political backdrops. . . . her volume invites the reader on an imaginary journey through the complex topographical, monumental, and historical layers of the Eternal City."

"Beautifully produced."

“The history of Rome comes to life in this erudite, beautifully written book. Organized chronologically from Rome’s early beginnings to the present, this richly detailed history of Rome is focused through the lens of maps and cartographic images. Maier has written a fascinating account for both armchair and actual travelers. The Eternal City also has much to offer to seasoned scholars who will appreciate its coherent and fluid synthesis.”

“The Eternal City offers the reader a vivid panorama of Rome’s changing form and image over the course of more than two millennia. A rich selection of city plans and views reveals crucial shifts in representational strategies, function, and symbolic intent. The dynamic tension between Rome’s complex, three-dimensional urban reality and the city’s image as projected by successive generations of artists and cartographers is certain to engage a wide audience.”

"The Eternal City is a brilliant history of Rome, focusing on how we have responded to and represented this ever-changing city. Digging down into both Rome's history and our own desires for this city, Maier has written a fascinating book that has changed the way I consider maps and history."

"Each chapter combines history, urban development, and the history of mapping to assess in each period how the city changed and how contemporaries represented it—demonstrating how Rome has been constantly reimagined, reconstructed, and represented over the course of the past three millennia, both on the ground and on paper (or other media)... Highly Recommended."

"Done very well, both in the selection and discussion of visual images and in [Maier's] considerate and humane prose style. A delight of a book."