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Home / Regional / Europe / Italy / Regions / Lazio / Localities / Rome / Arts and Entertainment / Architecture
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- Ancient and Historic Rome - Bill Thayer's gazetteer of buildings and monuments: photographs and history. Also online editions of Platner's 'Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome' and Rodolfo Lanciani 'Pagan and Christian Rome'.
www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/home.html
- Architecture of Rome - Buildings of Rome in the Great Buildings Online database: images, descriptions and sources.
www.greatbuildings.com/places/rome.html
- Architecture of Rome - Pictures and information about the buildings and monuments from Glass, Steel and Stone.
www.glasssteelandstone.com/IT/RomeArcoTito.html
- Baroque Rome in the Etchings of Giuseppe Vasi - Vasi published 10 books of etchings of the monuments of Rome (1746-61), which can be seen here alongside photographs of the same locations today.
members.tripod.com/romeartlover/index.html
- Images of Rome - Kalervo Koskimies presents his own clear photographs, together with 18th and 19th century images, of the Classical and later monuments of the city.
www.siba.fi/~kkoskim/rooma/pages
- Margaret Visser: The Geometry of Love - A book exploring the basilican church of Sant Agnese fuori le Mura, Rome, rebuilt 625-38 to replace a 4th-century church. Author's biography, reviews, images with extracts.
www.margaretvisser.com
- Passing Through St. Peter's - A gallery of beautiful images of the central cathedral of the Catholic faith provided by Eternal Word Television Network.
www.ewtn.com/gallery/sp/sp1.htm
- SPQR: Encyclopaedia Romana - James Grout's collection of articles, plans and pictures of ancient Rome and its remains, with an extensive bibliography. Includes Vitruvius's comments on temple architecture.
itsa.ucsf.edu/~snlrc/encyclopaedia_romana
- The Churches of Rome - Chris Nyborg's guide to churches of all denominations in this city central to the development of church architecture. Includes biographies of their architects and artists.
home.online.no/~cnyborg
- Villa Aldobrandini - Paula J. Howarth tells the story of this villa built on the Quirinal hill at the beginning of the 17th century by Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini, with bibliography.
www.agora.it/P.Howarth
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