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The Ruin of the Eternal City - Antiquity and Preservation in Renaissance Rome (Hardcover)
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The Ruin of the Eternal City - Antiquity and Preservation in Renaissance Rome (Hardcover)
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In Renaissance Rome, ancient ruins were preserved as often as they
were mined for their materials. Although the question of what to
preserve and how continued to be subject to debate, preservation
acquired renewed force and urgency in the fifteenth and sixteenth
centuries as the new papal capital rose upon the ruins of the
ancient city. Preservation practices became more focused and
effective in Renaissance Rome than ever before.
The Ruin of the Eternal City offers a new interpretation of the
ongoing life of ancient buildings within the expanding early modern
city. While historians and archaeologists have long affirmed that
early modern builders disregarded the protection of antiquity, this
study provides the first systematic analysis of preservation
problems as perceived by the Renaissance popes, the civic
magistrates, and ordinary citizens. Based on new evidence and
recent conservation theory, this compelling study explores how
civic officials balanced the defense of specific sites against the
pressing demands imposed by population growth, circulation, and
notions of urban decorum. Above all, the preservation of antiquity
remained an indispensable tool to advance competing political
agendas in the papal capital. A broad range of preservation
policies and practices are examined at the half-ruined Colosseum,
the intact Pantheon, and the little-known but essential Renaissance
bridge known as the Ponte Santa Maria.
Rome has always incorporated change in light of its glorious past
as well as in the more pragmatic context of contemporary
development. Such an investigation not only reveals the complexity
of preservation as a contested practice, but also challenges us to
rethink the way people in the past understood history itself.
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