Jessica Maier
Auteur de The Eternal City: A History of Rome in Maps
Œuvres de Jessica Maier
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
- Études
- Columbia University (M.A.|1999|M.Phil.|2001|Ph.D|2006)
Brown University (BA|1996) - Professions
- art historian
professor - Relations
- Maier, Pauline (mother)
Maier, Charles S. (father)
Camerlenghi, Nicola (husband) - Organisations
- Mount Holyoke College
- Prix et distinctions
- Fellow, American Academy in Rome
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 2
- Membres
- 74
- Popularité
- #238,154
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 5
- Langues
- 1
This was certainly enjoyable and certainly the cartographic information was new to me; for example, I learned that the 18th century Giovanni Piranesi – known for his fantastic ‘vedute’ – also ventured into serious cartography. Maier also presents the basic elements of Roman history well, although she sometimes dares to elaborate on side aspects, and I remained somewhat disappointed about the period after the second world war. There are of course many cards printed in the book, but because I only had the Kindle version, the details were sometimes very difficult to see; so I would absolutely recommend a paper version (and I hope the images are printed much larger there).
Yet I must warn anyone who was not yet familiar with Rome and hopes to get a handy introduction to Roman history here. Due to the endless succession of maps and cartographers, this seems less suitable as a first introduction. But for those interested, this - and the city itself of course - is a great book! (advanced copy through Netgalley)… (plus d'informations)