The Waters of Rome: Aqueducts, Fountains, and the Baroque City
The Waters of Rome: Aqueducts, Fountains, and the Baroque City
$125.00
Rinne, Katherine Wentworth.
Yale 2010
SKU 85000
A wonderful book documenting the aqueducts, fountains, and the birth of the baroque city. n 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.
262 pp. Cl. Many illustrations
