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Article: The Vision of Rome in Late Renaissance France.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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The Vision of Rome in Late Renaissance France. By MARGARET MCGOWAN. Newhaven and London: Yale University Press. 2000. xiv + 461 pp. $50.
This book is a joy to read. The text is fascinating, but it is also interspersed with innumerable black-and-white reproductions of architectural and other engravings, medals, portraits, statues and triumphs, with a further section of sixteen pages of full-colour illustrations of manuscripts, frescoes, and paintings, together with an emblematic painted window and the Grand camee de France. This study of the perception of Rome, both as physical reality and as symbol, is wide-reaching and interdisciplinary but also carefully structured ...