Categorii: Diverse
Limba: Engleza
Data publicării: 2024
Editura: Thames & Hudson
Tip copertă: Hardcover
Nr Pag: 256
ISBN: 9780500025680
Dimensiuni: l: 18.6cm | H: 24.6cm | 3.0cm | 1066g
‘What is worse than Nero?
What is better than Nero’s Baths?’ – so wrote the poet Martial in the first century AD, demonstrating the power that buildings have on public consciousness. In ancient Rome, who built a monument and why mattered as much as its physical structure.
Over centuries and under many different emperors, a small village in Italy was transformed into the crowning glory of an empire. Seeking out the personalities behind the great building projects is key to understanding them.