Roman Fountains
2000 Fountains in Rome. A Complete Collection
by Marvin Pulvers
Paperback (Out of print)
(December 2002)
ISBN: 9788882651763
Price: $125.00
Out of stock
The fountains of Rome have been beautiful, decorative and functional icons of the Eternal City for centuries. Painters have immortalized them; poets have rhapsodized over them; and composers have translated into music. From the wish-inspiring Trevi to the humblest drinking fountain, the fountains of Rome are as fascinating as they are varied. And … there are over 2.000 of them. The poet Shelley said, The fountains of Rome are in themselves magnificent combinations of art such as alone, it were worth coming to see. The fountains of Rome are a curious lot. They are a mixture of many different stone, not only of marble; they are also of wood, metal and other materials. They have been shaped and curved and otherwise formed by greats such as Carlo Maderno, Giacomo della Porta, Domenico Fontana, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Nicola Salvi, Raffaele De Vico and Pietro lombardi., and by unknowns as well. Any intricate history of Rome’s various fountains would take many tomes to cover. This is not my work. I present for your pleasure a view of the fountains, with a brief pertinent description where appropriate. Although many dozens of books, each generally titled Le Fontane di Roma, have been written on this subject, none to date has covered in text and photographs together more than several hundred fountains, only a fraction of this book’s work. (M. Pulvers).
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Preface
Glossary
Guide to use the book
Catalogue
Index.
- By (author) Marvin Pulvers
Similar Books
Drunk the Potion, No Whit Charmed
The Doctrine of Pure and Perfect Souls from Iamblichus to Damascius
Late Antique villae in the Balkans (3rd–7th c. AD): Current Research Questions and Perspectives
HAEMUS Companion to the Late Antique Balkans 1
Volume 4
Nurturing the Elite
Representations of Drinking, Eating, and Religious Vessels in Palmyrene Funerary Iconography
Volume 13
After Life in Roman Paganism. L’Égypte des astrologues. Les Mages hellénisés
Introductions historiographiques
Volume 7
I Germani e l’Impero Romano. Storia e diritti
Saggi delle edizioni degli incontri 2024-2025
Volume 14
But the Wise Shall Understand
Reuse of Prophecies, Chronotope, and Merging of Eschatological Horizons in Daniel 10-12
Creation Concepts and Creation Care
Perspectives from Early Judaism, Early Christianity, and Beyond. Kontexte und Normen neutestamentlicher Ethik / Contexts and Norms of New Testament Ethics XVII
Stoic Presocratics – Presocratic Stoics
Studies in the Stoic Reception of Early Greek Philosophy
Volume 17
Thinking, Believing, and the Realm of Appearances
Plato's Epistemology of Perceptibles in the Later Dialogues
AElius Aristide et Xenophon
Regards d'un orateur greco-romain sur un classique de l'hellenisme
Volume 40
Antike und Antikerezeption in sächsischen Museen
Bestandsentwicklung – Ausstellungsgeschichte – Technologiewandel
