Art & Architecture Rome

An image of every piece of art that is described is included, allowing readers to easily recognize the original in situ. Insets on cultural and his...

Reducere. Audacious futurism: The forward-thinking work of a singular architect Zaha Hadid is a wildly controversial architect, who for many years built almo...

Reducere. A celebration of the art, architecture, and timeless human passion of the Eternal City, Rome Is Love Spelled Backward explores Rome's best-known tr...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat was life like in Ancient Rome? If your 6th grader has ever wondered what it's like to live in the ancient times without technology,...

Reducere. ContentEarly Christian and Medieval Rome looks at the fascinating art and architecture in Rome dating from between about 300 and 1300. In the fourt...

Reducere. During most of the history of architecture, architects had to be artists, engineers, and scholars. This three-volume series of books is about what ...

DescriptionThe modern world owes a great deal to ancient Rome, including many principles of democratic government, law, poetry, drama, art and arch...

Reducere. Hello, Rome! This board book series pairs early learning concepts with colorful, stylish illustrations of the iconic art, architecture, food, and c...

DescriptionAn elegantly illustrated collection of favourite Bible stories with an interesting twist. Margaret McAllister imaginatively retells thes...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Rome, then keep reading...Rome started as a kingdom, thrived as a republic, conquered vast terri...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Rome, then keep reading...Rome started as a kingdom, thrived as a republic, conquered vast terri...

An Ostiense neighborhood is known poetically as the village in the city of Rome.Founded in the late 1920s, Garbatella was planned using methods der...

Written by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, one of the world's foremost scholars on Roman social and cultural history, this introduction to Rome in the Age ...

Baroque art and architecture -- extravagant in concept, exuberant in spirit, elaborate in detail -- flourished in seventeenth-century Europe, and t...

Reducere. In this lively and very readable history of the Roman Empire from its establishment in 27 BC to the barbarian incursions and the fall of Rome in AD...

The Renaissance was a diverse phenomenon, marked by innovation and economic expansion, the rise of powerful rulers, religious reforms, and social c...

For more than two thousand years the art of Greece and Rome has been hugely influential throughout the Western world. This book recaptures the pass...

Reducere. Republished in a beautiful new package, the eternal classic that captures the Eternal City in all its vibrant enchantmentBringing to life the legen...

DescriptionThe Renaissance artist Raphael is known for his extraordinary frescoes, his sublime Madonnas, devotional altarpieces, architectural desi...

In this absorbing illustrated history, Loren Partridge takes the reader on an insightful tour of Renaissance Florence and sheds new light on its ce...

Despite the fact that the majority of the inhabitants of the Roman Empire lived an agricultural existence and thus resided outside of urban centers...

DescriptionEgypt, Greece, and Rome is regarded as one of the best general histories of the ancient world. It is written for the general reader and ...

At the crossroads between Africa, Asia, and Europe, the South Arabian kingdoms were major commercial, military, and cultural players in world histo...

In less than fifty-three years, Rome subjected most of the known world to its rule. This authoritative and compelling work tells the story of the r...

DescriptionRome, the Eternal City - birthplace of western civilisation and soul of the ancient world - has a history that stretches back two thousa...

This book brings together a bold revision of the traditional view of the Renaissance with a new comparative synthesis of global empires in early mo...

From before history was recorded to the present day, theatre has been a major artistic form around the world. From puppetry to mimes and street the...

At the end of the eighteenth century, the tradition of plein air painting gained considerable popularity in Rome. Artists came from all over Europe...

Reducere. For Italian city builders more than a thousand years ago, the urban realm was the great theater where their best aspirations were played out, the p...

Over the course of his distinguished career, Robert Hughes wrote with brutal honesty about art, architecture, culture, religion--and himself. The S...

Reducere. "To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days." -PLUTARCH Lives of the N...

Discover the joys of nature, seasons, family--and the vibrant colors of them all--in this lyrical picture book from the author of the acclaimed Blu...

Lonely Planet's Italy is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Expl...

Reducere. The classical civilizations of Greece and Rome once dominated the world, and they continue to fascinate and inspire us. Classical art and architect...

DescriptionFor centuries Italy has been many things to many people. In this brilliant anthology and traveler's companion, twenty-eight first-rate w...

Surprises await in Turin, Italy's first capital.Long before Turin hosted the Olympics, it marked important Italian milestones. In 1563, it became t...

Reducere. This book surveys the cities of the Ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek and Roman worlds, with a focus on their physical appearance, on urban f...

Reducere. Underneath the desert sands, a forgotten culture awaits your discovery...Its pyramids jut like wind-ravaged arrowheads from the ground, dominating ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Barry LintonArguably the greatest Empire to ever exist, Rome has indelibly left a significant mark on the modern world. The...

Reducere. DescriptionIf you want to discover the captivating history of the Middle Ages, then keep reading...One of the least understood periods of European ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Middle Ages, then keep reading...One of the least understood periods of European history occ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Middle Ages, then keep reading...One of the least understood periods of European history occ...