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Rome

Robert Hughes

For almost a thousand years, Rome held sway as the spiritual and artistic centre of the world. Hughes vividly recreates the ancient Rome of Julius Caesar, Marcus Aurelius, Nero, Caligula, Cicero, Martial and Virgil. With the artistic blossoming of the Renaissance, he casts his unwavering critical eye over the great works of Raphael, Michelangelo and Brunelleschi, shedding new light on the Old Masters. In the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when Rome's cultural predominance was assured, artists and tourists from all over Europe converged on the city. Hughes brilliantly analyses the defining works of Caravaggio, Velasquez, Rubens and Bernini.

Hughes' Rome is a vibrant, contradictory, spectacular and secretive place; a monument both to human glory and human error. In equal parts loving, iconoclastic, enraged and wise, peopled with colourful figures and rich in unexpected details, ROME is an exhilarating journey through the story of one of the world's most glorious cities.

  • Classification : History
  • Pub Date : APR 15, 2012
  • Imprint : Phoenix
  • Page Extent : 624
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9780753823057
  • Price : INR 799
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Robert Hughes

Robert Hughes was the long time critic for Time Magazine. He is the author of many books including the best-selling Fatal Shore and his recent critically acclaimed memoir Things I Didn't Know as well as the originator and narrator of the highly acclaimed PBS television series Shock of the New and American Visions. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books Hughes lives in New York City.

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