Rome Then and Now in Overlay

by Giuseppe Gangi, Geoffrey Copleston (translator)

This book consists of pictures of classical Roman structures as they appeared in the 1980s. There are transparent overlays showing artists' reconstructions of the buildings as they originally appeared. There are brief descriptions of the buildings; the introduction is an abbreviated history of the Roman Empire, particularly as it concerns the buildings shown in the book.

Genres: History, Travel, Nonfiction, Art

Spiral-bound

First published January 1, 1985

Reviews

[Aliz · Rating 4 out of 5]

The overlays are kind of fun, especially to look at when you're actually there - hope springs eternal, one day I'll get to go back there again.

[Snail in Danger (Sid) Nicolaides]

This is a neat concept, though I was not terribly impressed with the quality of the depictions in the overlays. Also, I thought it didn't provide enough context or information about most of the sites that are covered. I think the author passed up on the opportunity to talk about how long looting/dismantling has been going on, though for some of the sites he does allude to dismantling in the medieval period.

Part of the problem is that many of the sites are really ruins. i.e., there's not enough of what used to be there to really let you envision it.

How much of the past in the form of buildings should really be preserved is something that I ponder a lot, so this was more food for thought in that way.

[Mckinley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great look at watch Rome might have looked like back at the time of builidng.