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Religious architecture --- Architecture --- Rome, Sint-Pietersbasiliek --- Sint-Pietersbasiliek [Rome]

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Roman history --- Rome --- Civilization --- History --- Civilisation --- Histoire --- Civilization. --- History. --- Rome - History --- Rome - Civilization

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Between the catastrophic flood of the Tiber River in 1557 and the death of the “engineering pope” Sixtus V in 1590, the city of Rome was transformed by intense activity involving building construction and engineering projects of all kinds. Using hundreds of archival documents and primary sources, Engineering the Eternal City explores the processes and people involved in these infrastructure projects—sewers, bridge repair, flood prevention, aqueduct construction, the building of new, straight streets, and even the relocation of immensely heavy ancient Egyptian obelisks that Roman emperors had carried to the city centuries before. This portrait of an early modern Rome examines the many conflicts, failures, and successes that shaped the city, as decision-makers tried to control not only Rome’s structures and infrastructures but also the people who lived there. Taking up visual images of the city created during the same period—most importantly in maps and urban representations, this book shows how in a time before the development of modern professionalism and modern bureaucracies, there was far more wide-ranging conversation among people of various backgrounds on issues of engineering and infrastructure than there is in our own times. Physicians, civic leaders, jurists, cardinals, popes, and clerics engaged with painters, sculptors, architects, printers, and other practitioners as they discussed, argued, and completed the projects that remade Rome.

Environmental planning --- History of civilization --- History of Italy --- anno 1500-1599 --- Rome --- Urban renewal --- Municipal engineering --- Civic improvement --- History --- Rome (Italy) --- Rénovation urbaine --- Génie urbain --- Villes --- Histoire --- Aménagement et assainissement --- Rome (Italie) --- Urban renewal - Italy - Rome - History - 16th century --- Municipal engineering - Italy - Rome - History - 16th century --- Civic improvement - Italy - Rome - History - 16th century --- Rome (Italy) - History - 16th century

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This volume addresses the treatment and perception of historic buildings in Imperial Rome, examining the ways in which public monuments were restored in order to develop an understanding of the Roman concept of built heritage. It considers examples from the first century BC to the second century AD, focusing primarily on the six decades between the Great Fire of AD 64 and the AD 120s, which constituted a period of dramatic urban transformation and architectural innovation in Rome. Through a detailed analysis of the ways in which the design, materiality, and appearance of buildings - including the temple of Jupiter Capitolinus and hut of Romulus - developed with successive restorations, the case is made for the existence of a consistent approach to the treatment of historic buildings in this period. This study also explores how changes to particular monuments and to the urban fabric as a whole were received by the people who experienced them first-hand, uncovering attitudes to built heritage in Roman society more widely. By examining descriptions of destruction and restoration in literature of the first and second centuries AD, including the works of Seneca the Younger, Pliny the Elder, Martial, Tacitus, and Plutarch, it forms a picture of the conflicting ways in which Rome's inhabitants responded to the redevelopment of their city. The results provide an alternative way of explaining key interventions in Rome's built environment and challenge the idea that heritage is a purely modern phenomenon.

Historic buildings --- Historiography --- Buildings. --- Historiography. --- Conservation and restoration --- Conservation and restoration. --- Rome (Italy) --- Rome (Empire) --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- Conservation. Restoration --- Architecture --- ruins --- architectural conservation --- Rome --- antieke cultuur