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Rome Measured and Imagined: Early Modern Maps of the Eternal City

Rome Measured and Imagined: Early Modern Maps of the Eternal City

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  • Jessica Maier
  • University of Chicago Press
  • Hardcover
  • 9780226127637
  • 10.25 X 7.23 X 1.08 inches
  • 1.7 pounds
  • Technology & Engineering > Cartography
  • English
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At the turn of the fifteenth century, Rome was in the midst of a dramatic transformation from what the fourteenth-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. Through an exploration of works dating from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, her book interweaves the story of the city portrait with that of Rome itself.

Highly interdisciplinary and beautifully illustrated with nearly one hundred city portraits, Rome Measured and Imagined advances the scholarship on Renaissance Rome and print culture in fascinating ways.

Rome Measured and Imagined: Early Modern Maps of the Eternal City

Author Bio

Jessica Maier teaches European Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture with an eye to global interactions. In her research and in the classroom, she focuses on traditionally overlooked categories of imagery such as prints, illustrated books, maps, and city views.

Maier holds degrees from Columbia and Brown Universities and is the recipient of fellowships from the American Academy in Rome as well as Villa I Tatti in Florence. Her first book, Rome Measured and Imagined: Early Modern Maps of the Eternal City, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2015. Her articles have appeared in The Art Bulletin, Renaissance Quarterly, Imago Mundi, and many other places. She is currently working on a second book project with the working title Contested Places: Cartography, Conflict, and the Visual Arts in Early Modern Europe.

Maier previously taught at the University of Oregon and Tulane University. She has also offered courses in the U.S. and in Italy for Columbia University, Dartmouth College, and Louisiana State University. At Mount Holyoke since 2011, Maier teaches a wide range of classes designed to appeal to majors and non-majors alike: from an introductory survey entitled Ways of Seeing to a sequence of Renaissance lecture courses devoted to Italian, Northern, and transnational perspectives, as well as seminars on Leonardo da Vinci, early modern Rome, and art historical methods.

 

Source: The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies and Mount Holyoke College

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