This book is a unique, eye-opening guide to one of the world's most magnificent cities, celebrating the special character of Rome's buildings, fountains, piazzas, streets, and ruins with illuminating insight and irresistible enthusiasm — for the first-time sightseer, the frequent visitor, or the armchair traveler. Not Built in a Day moves beyond the names, dates, and statistics of the traditional guidebook to provide a loving, personal, and instructive analysis of the architectural pleasures of Rome. Twelve walking tours profile some two hundred sites within Rome's ancient walls, all described in prose that is fresh, witty, and discerning. From the largest piazza down to the smallest fountain, George H. Sullivan's essays explore the city with an engagingly appraising eye, enabling readers to see exactly what makes the architecture of Rome so important and so memorable. Sophisticated enough for those well versed in architecture, yet written in language accessible to all readers, this extraordinary guide is a deeply felt homage to Rome and its fascinating two-thousand-year history. In addition to detailed maps for the twelve walking tours, this wonderful edition comes illustrated with classical etchings.
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"Clean prose and profound knowledge--just the book for when the Eternal City beckons." -- Frances Mayes, bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun
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George H. Sullivan is a veteran travel writer, having written about Florence and Vienna for Fodor’s Travel Guides. He has been appointed by Albright College to give a series of lectures on Rome next year. The five lectures, each on a different architectural era: Antiquity, Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque, 19th/20th Century (Historicism & Modernism). He lives in Alexandria, Virginia.
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This memorable, witty and discerning new guide to Rome -- a city caught "like an old man" in memories, delusions and dreams --evokes the special character, history and attraction of the marvelous piazzas along with the ancient, renaissance and baroque palazzos. Sophisticated and informative, it sharpens your eye and mind; it is what lovers of Rome have been waiting for. Don't miss it for your next to Rome.... Amos Elon
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I found Mr Sullivan's book to be an insightful and elegant analysis of the architecture of Rome. It is an excellent guide for both on-site visits and for savoring after your trip. This is one of the best books that I have read on Rome.
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Not Built in a Day blends astute architectural observation with basic guidebook practicality. The descriptions combine detail and relevant explanation to make the most lay-person feel expert as they dissect the infinite elements in a church, piazza, or palazzo. For anyone who's been to Rome, the inexorable shuttling between sites makes you numb to the city's splendor, but Not Built in a Day constantly re-orients and reminds the reader that every site contains an element of architectural, historical, or civic wonder that makes the non-stop walking completely worthwhile.The book's walking tours can be strictly followed (I completed tours 1,2, and 7 without any diversions), but once I had a better feel for the city, I picked specific places that I wanted to see and then read the appropriate entry. Every guidebook should aspire to be Not Built in a Day
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ROME'S UNUSUAL GEOGRAPHY has long been defined by a single famous phrase: "the Seven Hills of Rome." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
palazzo design, protruding cornice, double pediment, giant pilasters, nave columns, palazzo façade, paired pilasters, curved apse, curved pediment, horizontal entablature, sculpted angels, upper arcade, bold columns, upper façade, archway openings, decorative scrolls, antique columns, entrance portico, church façade, paired columns, triangular pediment Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Piazza Venezia, Piazza Navona, High Renaissance, Campus Martius, Middle Ages, Spanish Steps, Via del Corso, Gianlorenzo Bernini, Maria Maggiore, Victor Emmanuel Monument, Capitoline Hill, Corso Vittorio Emanuele, Porta Pia, Piazza del Popolo, Carlo Maderno, Chiesa Nuova, Francesco Borromini, Palazzo del Senatore, Carlo Rainaldi, Palazzo Farnese, Peter's Square, Pietro da Cortona, Pope Sixtus, Carlo Fontana, Marcus Aurelius New!
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ROME'S UNUSUAL GEOGRAPHY has long been defined by a single famous phrase: "the Seven Hills of Rome." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
palazzo design, protruding cornice, double pediment, giant pilasters, nave columns, palazzo façade, paired pilasters, curved apse, curved pediment, horizontal entablature, sculpted angels, upper arcade, bold columns, upper façade, archway openings, decorative scrolls, antique columns, entrance portico, church façade, paired columns, triangular pediment Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Piazza Venezia, Piazza Navona, High Renaissance, Campus Martius, Middle Ages, Spanish Steps, Via del Corso, Gianlorenzo Bernini, Maria Maggiore, Victor Emmanuel Monument, Capitoline Hill, Corso Vittorio Emanuele, Porta Pia, Piazza del Popolo, Carlo Maderno, Chiesa Nuova, Francesco Borromini, Palazzo del Senatore, Carlo Rainaldi, Palazzo Farnese, Peter's Square, Pietro da Cortona, Pope Sixtus, Carlo Fontana, Marcus Aurelius New!
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- The Architecture of Michelangelo by James S. Ackerman on 5 pages
- Guide to Baroque Rome (Icon Editions) by Anthony Blunt on 5 pages
- Rome and a Villa by Eleanor Clark on page 36, page 139, and page 206
- Italian Baroque and Rococo Architecture by John Varriano on page 137, page 143, and page 191
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 3 by Edward Gibbon on page 32, and page 36
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