Publication

1983 - Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J, New Jersey

Language

English

Word Count

80,250 words, Guess

Page Count

321 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780691099477
  • Open LibraryOL3506408M

Classifications

  • DDC945/.63207
  • LCCDG812.12 .C4813 1983
  • LCCN6915

Description

This richly illustrated study of the sack as a cultural and artistic phenomenon reveals the ambiguities of preceding events and the traumatic contrast between the flourishing world of art under Clement VII and the city as it existed after the troops of Emperor Charles V had looted Rome in 1527.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • The A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts ;
  • 1977
  • Bollingen series ;
  • XXXV, 26
  • 35, 26.

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