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The Waters of Rome: Aqueducts, Fountains, and the Birth of the Baroque City Tying together the technological, sociopolitical, and artistic questions that faced the designers during an age of turmoil in which the Catholic Church found its authority threatened. Suppo
| Title | : | The Waters of Rome: Aqueducts, Fountains, and the Birth of the Baroque City |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.59 (869 Votes) |
| Id Book | : | 0300155301 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2011-01-11 |
| Type File | : | PDF, DOC, RTF, ePub |
In this pioneering study of the water infrastructure of Renaissance Rome, urban historian Katherine Rinne offers a new understanding of how technological and scientific developments in aqueduct and fountain architecture helped turn a medieval backwater into the preeminent city of early modern Europe. Supported by the author’s extensive topographical research, this book presents a unified vision of the city that links improvements to public and private water systems with political, religious, and social change. Between 1560 and 1630, in a spectacular burst of urban renewal, Rome’s religious and civil authorities sponsored the construction of aqueducts, private and public fountains for drinking, washing, and industry, and the magnificent ceremonial fountains that are Rome’s glory. Tying together the technological, sociopolitical, and artistic questions that faced the designers during an age of turmoil in which the Catholic Church found its authority threatened
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The author explains this diversity of artifacts not so much by invention as by evolution: "the prevalence of artifactual continuity has been obscured by the myth of the heroic inventive genius" (pg. He also places those details in perspective by using an evoluationary model of technical change. My wife and I both found the book a delight to read, a opportunity to recall strolls through Rome, and an incentive to quickly return to see the fountains with more informed eyes.. viii).
It is the author's great merit to have chosen Darwinian evolution as the overarching explanatory metaphor explaining the evolution of technology. Fascinating study on the evolution of technology from a variation and selection perspective. 189 ff.). I purchased this book after visiting the Orsay and reading very positive reviews posted on Amazon. The Waters of Rome wonderfully links the Renaissance-era rebuilding of Rome's aqueducts, the politics (Papal and secular) in that rebuidling,
The author explains this diversity of artifacts not so much by invention as by evolution: "the prevalence of artifactual continuity has been obscured by the myth of the heroic inventive genius" (pg. He also places those details in perspective by using an evoluationary model of technical change. My wife and I both found the book a delight to read, a opportunity to recall strolls through Rome, and an incentive to quickly return to see the fountains with more informed eyes.. viii).
It is the author's great merit to have chosen Darwinian evolution as the overarching explanatory metaphor explaining the evolution of technology. Fascinating study on the evolution of technology from a variation and selection perspective. 189 ff.). I purchased this book after visiting the Orsay and reading very positive reviews posted on Amazon. The Waters of Rome wonderfully links the Renaissance-era rebuilding of Rome's aqueducts, the politics (Papal and secular) in that rebuidling,
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