Rome : a cultural, visual, and personal history /

Hughes, Robert, 1938-2012.

Rome : a cultural, visual, and personal history / Robert Hughes. - 1st ed. - New York : Vintage Books, c2012. - x, 498 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 20 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foundation -- Augustus -- Later Empire -- Pagans versus christians -- Medieval Rome and Avignon -- Renaissance -- Rome in the seventeenth century -- High baroque (Bernini, Borromini, etc.) -- Eighteenth-century Rome, neo-classicism, and the Grand tour -- The ninteenth century : orthodoxy versus modernity -- Futurism and fascism -- Rome recaptured.

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Rome (Italy)--History.
Roma--Historia.

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