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Robert Hughes
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Rome - as a city, as an empire, as an enduring idea - is in many ways the origin of everything Robert Hughes has spent his life writing about with such dazzling irreverence and exacting rigour. In this magisterial book he traces the city's history from its mythic foundation with Romulus and Remus to Fascism, Fellini and beyond. 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.
©2011 Robert Hughes (P)2011 Orion Publishing Group Ltd
The audio version suffers from a speaker who didn’t make any effort to learn how to pronounce the frequent Italian names correctly and consequently butchered half of them. One would think that some knowledge of Italian pronunciation would be the first thing to expect when recording a book about Rome. Furthermore, stupid mistakes like confusing the Parthenon for the Pantheon and other errors (BC for CE) make listening a rather confusing and annoying experience.
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