City of the Soul: Rome and the Romantics

Pinto, John

ISBN 10: 0875981712 / ISBN 13: 9780875981710

Editore: The Morgan Library & Museum / The University Press of New England, New York / Hanover, 2016

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Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, color illustrated dust jacket, color frontispiece, 207 pp, profusely illustrated throughout in bw and color. "Rome, described by Byron as the City of the Soul, has always inspired fervid imaginings and visionary renderings of itself and its past. It has existed not only as an intensely physical place but also as a romantic idea onto which artists and writers projected their own imaginations and longings. City of the Soul illuminates how the spirit of Romanticism (the term itself invokes Rome)its passion, imagination, individuality, transcendence, nonconformitythrived in the artistic community of Rome in the century between 1770 and 1870. The expansive artistic response to Rome during that period reflected the timeless yet changing city, when visitors experienced the transition from the Grand Tour to the onset of mass tourism and history witnessed Romes dramatic transformation from papal enclave to the capital of a newly unified Italy. Rome in the Romantic era attracted extraordinary writers and visual artists, and, as it had for centuries, facilitated vibrant artistic exchange among them. The records of these encountersin the form of letters and diary entries, poems, novels, prints, drawings, watercolors, oil sketches, and the exciting new medium of photographycollectively constitute the portrait of a very particular place, a city that touched the very soul."--dust jacket.

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• Titolo: City of the Soul: Rome and the Romantics
• Editore: The Morgan Library & Museum / The University Press of New England, New York / Hanover
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0875981712
• ISBN 13: 9780875981710
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: VG/VG
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • European Art
  • Museum Exhibitions - European Art

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Riassunto

City of the Soul critically examines how an international cast of visitors fashioned Rome’s image, visual and literary, in the century between 1770 and 1870—from the era of the Grand Tour to the onset of mass tourism. The Eternal City emerges not only as an intensely physical place but also as a romantic idea onto which artists and writers projected their own imaginations and longings. The book will appeal to a wide audience of readers interested in the history of art, architecture, and photography, the Romantic poets, and other writers from Byron to Henry James. It will also attract the interest of historians of urbanism, landscape, and Italy. Nonspecialists and armchair travelers will enjoy the diverse literary and artistic responses to Rome.

Informazioni sull?autore

JOHN A. PINTO taught for twenty-five years at Princeton University in the Department of Art and Archaeology. His research interests focus on the architecture of eighteenth-century Rome and on the relationship between the architecture of classical antiquity and that of the Renaissance. He currently resides in New York City.