Introduction “Icarus Spreading His Wings”: The Early Modern City Brought to Life

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction “Icarus Spreading His Wings”: The Early Modern City Brought to Life 1
5. Chapter One. Toward a New City Image: Leon Battista Alberti’s Descriptio urbis Romae (ca. 1450) and Francesco Rosselli’s Lost View of Rome (ca. 1485–90) 19
6. Chapter Two. Putting Rome into Drawing: The Lessons of Architecture and Antiquity in the Early 1500s 49
7. Chapter Three. Syntheses: Leonardo Bufalini’s Plan of Rome (1551) 77
8. Chapter Four. Antitheses: Ancient and Modern Rome in Sixteenth-Century Imagery 119
9. Chapter Five “Before the Eyes of the Whole World”: The City Writ Large, 1593–1676 163
10. Epilogue The Eternal City Measured and Imagined 211
11. Notes 231
12. Index 263