Art in Rome
Valerio Mariani
Sold by Crappy Old Books, Barry, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since 6 February 2025
Used - Hardcover
Condition: Used - Good
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Add to basketSold by Crappy Old Books, Barry, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since 6 February 2025
Condition: Used - Good
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketArt in Rome (c.1950) Author: Valerio Mariani ? Publisher: Stringa ISBN: none (SPQR predates barcodes) Condition: Good (well-travelled, well-mannered) Imprint: Crappy Old Books Welcome to the city where marble catches the light like it has a contract. Valerio Mariani?s Art in Rome is a brisk Roman holiday for your brain: part pocket docent, part confident friend who points at a ceiling and says, ?Yes, that cloud is doing theology.? Printed around 1950 , when guidebooks wore ties and typefaces behaved, this Stringa edition marches you from Republican foundations to Baroque fireworks without losing its hat or its Latin. Mariani writes in that perfect mid-century tone?succinct, slightly amused, never a bore. He knows his orders from his ordinals , his Bernini from his Borromini , and why the Pantheon is both a building and an argument. Expect compact essays on the big beasts (Pantheon, San Clemente, Raphael rooms, Michelangelo?s everything) plus the sort of side-chapel intelligence that makes you look like you?ve been living in Trastevere since Constantine. Photographs and plates?crisp, monochrome, unfussy?do exactly what you want: show the curve of a cornice , the weight of a column , and the way Roman light practices chiaroscuro without asking permission. Maps and plans keep you pointed in the right direction, or at least toward a decent espresso between Santa Maria sopra Minerva and the next gasp. Condition ?Good,? in our deliberately old-school dialect, means: a touch of honest rub to the cover, pages clean and evenly toned like a well-kept travertine step, binding square as a Roman forum, and plates still sharp. No alarming annotations, no wine stains, no post-war dust (we checked). Just the respectable patina of a book that has been opened reverently and closed reluctantly. Use cases (road-tested between ruins): Plot a one-day masterpiece loop : Pantheon ? Caravaggio detour ? Gesù ceiling ? Borromini curve ? gelato ? sanity restored. Settle dinner arguments with the line: ?Mariani says the façade is rhetoric; the nave is grammar.? Choose your interior palette from porphyry, lapis, stucco, and mild triumph . Practise saying ?oculus? like you mean it. Bluffer?s crib (deploy while pointing at a dome): ?Bernini is motion; Borromini is ideas with hinges.? ?The Pantheon is a sunbeam distribution device .? ?Baroque is not excess; it?s conviction in 3D .? Ideal for: art pilgrims, Rome repeat-offenders, students who prefer clear sentences to foggy sighs , and anyone who suspects that the Eternal City is best read like a library with better ceilings. Crappy Old Books guarantee: we don?t sell mint; we sell storied and sturdy . If you want a compact, witty companion that treats Rome as both museum and conversation, Mariani is your guide?ticket not included, admiration compulsory.
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