Viva Roma!
Artists and the Trip to Rome
- From the 17th - 20th century, the "voyage to Rome" established itself as a source of infinite inspiration where prevails the connections to Antiquity artworks
- This book addresses all the singularity of a city of contrasts and pleasures, to the light of the South: its different neighbourhoods, its palaces, galleries, restless life of the population, and even gastronomy which stroke new colours to Art in Europe
- Published to accompany an exhibition at the Liege Museum
From the 17th – 20th century, the “voyage to Rome” established itself as a source of infinite inspiration where prevails the connections to Antiquity artworks. The former capital of the Roman Empire exercised a powerful hand of seduction through its monuments such as the Coliseum, its nearby sites (Pompei, Herculaneum) and its art depicting ideal beauty, which was inherited from the Greeks.
This book addresses all the singularity of a city of contrasts and pleasures, to the light of the South: its different neighbourhoods, its palaces, galleries, restless life of the population, and even gastronomy which stroke new colours to Art in Europe.
Published to accompany an exhibition at the Liege Museum.
- Publisher
- Exhibitions International
- ISBN
- 9789461614582
- Published
- 8th Aug 2018
- Binding
- Hardback
- Territory
- United Kingdom and Ireland
- Size
- 250 mm x 205 mm
- Pages
- 160 Pages
- Illustrations
- 120 color
Distributed by ACC Art Books
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