Rome

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How many famous cameras have captured the ima^e of Rome? How many verses have immortalized its ma^ic? How many pages in literature have celebrated its charm? Every photograph is a declaration of love, every verse a discovery, every page a symbolic stone along that long path to the heart of the most loved, the most celebrated city in the world. Which is more fascinating - the classical opulent Rome of the great monuments or the city of the "little things" that so thrilled Stendhal and Goethe? The struggling suburban Rome of artists such as Mario Mafai, Renzo Vespignani or Vittorio De Sica, or the solemn city of Bernini? The futuristic city of Balla or the ideal city of Siron? Photographic charm and artists' dreams come together in the collective memory. They pursue one another half myth half reality. This is magic, this is the secret of Rome, loved and much hated, feared and venerated, great and mighty in the History of the world, yet warm and wily like the spirit of the Romans.... Tovább

Fülszöveg

How many famous cameras have captured the ima^e of Rome? How many verses have immortalized its ma^ic? How many pages in literature have celebrated its charm? Every photograph is a declaration of love, every verse a discovery, every page a symbolic stone along that long path to the heart of the most loved, the most celebrated city in the world. Which is more fascinating - the classical opulent Rome of the great monuments or the city of the "little things" that so thrilled Stendhal and Goethe? The struggling suburban Rome of artists such as Mario Mafai, Renzo Vespignani or Vittorio De Sica, or the solemn city of Bernini? The futuristic city of Balla or the ideal city of Siron? Photographic charm and artists' dreams come together in the collective memory. They pursue one another half myth half reality. This is magic, this is the secret of Rome, loved and much hated, feared and venerated, great and mighty in the History of the world, yet warm and wily like the spirit of the Romans. Rome? A city capable of blushing before the dying sun or lazing inoffensively like the cats of the Forum. Sacred and profane at one, it has enchanted illustrious foreigners and bewitched artists of all times. In this hook the eye of the camera and a journey through literary and artistic impressions old and new have captured that fleeting moment that makes Rome a truly unicjue city Vissza