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# 500+ historic & modern photos Iconic Roman landmarks featured 1840s to present day timeline Rome: Portrait of a City

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## Summary

> 🏛️ Capture Rome’s timeless allure—before everyone else does!

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## Key Features

- • **A Visual Time Machine:** Traverse nearly two centuries of Rome’s evolving beauty and culture through rare and iconic photography.
- • **Beyond Tourist Stereotypes:** Explore authentic street life, political history, and celebrity glamour beyond the usual Vespa and pasta clichés.
- • **Exclusive Archival Treasures:** Discover hand-colored sepia images and rare early photographs that bring Rome’s past vividly to life.
- • **Curated by Legendary Photographers:** Featuring works by Cartier-Bresson, Eisenstaedt, and Slim Aarons—masters who captured Rome’s soul.
- • **A Must-Have for Cultural Connoisseurs:** Join thousands of discerning readers who rated this photographic tribute 4.8 stars for its unmatched depth and style.

## Overview

Rome: Portrait of a City is a stunning photographic anthology spanning from the 1840s to today, showcasing over 500 images by renowned photographers. This book offers an unparalleled visual journey through Rome’s history, culture, and iconic landmarks, blending rare archival shots with vibrant modern scenes. Perfect for history buffs, art lovers, and travelers craving an authentic glimpse of the Eternal City’s evolving spirit.

## Description

This bumper photographic portrait of Rome brings together hundreds of photographs from the 1840s through to today to explore the extraordinary history, beauty, and art of this incomparable cultural capital. From sepia and black and white to color, these outstanding images dating from the 1840s to the present day allow us ― through the eyes of such photographers as Giacomo Caneva, Pompeo Molins, Giuseppe Primoli, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Carlo Bavagnoli, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Pasquale De Antonis, Peter Lindbergh, Slim Aarons, and William Klein ― to discover Rome in its many compelling guises: as the center of the Roman Empire, as one of the cradles of the Renaissance, as a favorite destination for travelers and a rich patchwork of varied neighborhoods, as the seat of the Roman Catholic Church, a stage for politics, and as the perfect backdrop for film and fashion shoots. Reaching back into illustrious archives, some of the book’s early images offer us a privileged Grand Tour glimpse of some of Rome’s most treasured landmarks, revealing the Colosseum, Roman Forum, and Spanish Steps almost void of crowds. Later pictures survey the city’s contrasts―from the luxurious homes and leisure activities of the privileged to street stalls and laundry lines in the working class districts of Trastevere and Testaccio. Some documentary-style shots show us the dark power of Mussolini, the city bedecked with his own iconography and imagery of strength, athleticism, and the fatherland. As color photography comes in, the city transitions from a neo-realismo aesthetic to postwar recovery and hedonism: all the glamorous gowns, exotic celebrities, and Via Veneto café culture immortalized by Fellini. Many famous faces are here, including Louis Armstrong, Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Hepburn, Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Anna Magnani, and Valentino.

Review: A fine tribute to glorious Rome. - Possibly no book could ever do justice to the magnificence of Rome. This one tries though, and maybe even gets close to conveying something of the greatness of Rome. The book consists of photographs covering the years from 1839 to the present day, divided into chapters of several decades each. Many of the early photographs are by anonymous photographers, and even a great deal of the later ones are not by known photographers. There are masterpieces by photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, & Alfred Eisenstaedt. The images start out in sepia or black & white, including an 1857 image of The Forum when it was used as a place for laundry to dry in the sunshine. An 1841 image of the Trevi fountain contrasts to a recent colour picture near the end of the book with the fountain used as a setting for a fashion show in July 2016, or the iconic 1960 picture from La Dolce Vita. Many of the early shots are enchanting: either lantern slide images enlarged, or hand coloured sepia pictures, such as the Pantheon in 1905, or Tivoli hill from the same year. St Peter's features repeatedly, and looks heavenly with a beam of light extending down into the dim interior in one image. There are many images of the celebrities of the Dolce Vita era, including Sophia Loren on her balcony in 1955, or Audrey Hepburn & Gregory Peck in Roman Holiday. A rare shot from 1890 shows Buffalo Bill at a cafe with two Indians in headdress. They were in town for a 'Wild West' show. There are plenty of people shots, of children playing in alleyways, colourful markets, a shoeshine boy, priests playing volleyball, fashionably dressed women, cats being fed in 1951, and a 1957 double page colour image of men playing football against a dramatic backdrop of ancient aqueducts. The book tries to include more than just the tourist sights, or the stereotypical images of vespas and pasta. Altogether, a fine tribute to an amazing city.
Review: Superb photographs - It is pure enjoyment

## Features

- New Store Stock

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | 95,933 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 23 in European Travel Photography 30 in History of Photography 37 in Photo Essays (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 296 Reviews |

## Images

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A fine tribute to glorious Rome.
*by C***. on 2 April 2018*

Possibly no book could ever do justice to the magnificence of Rome. This one tries though, and maybe even gets close to conveying something of the greatness of Rome. The book consists of photographs covering the years from 1839 to the present day, divided into chapters of several decades each. Many of the early photographs are by anonymous photographers, and even a great deal of the later ones are not by known photographers. There are masterpieces by photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, & Alfred Eisenstaedt. The images start out in sepia or black & white, including an 1857 image of The Forum when it was used as a place for laundry to dry in the sunshine. An 1841 image of the Trevi fountain contrasts to a recent colour picture near the end of the book with the fountain used as a setting for a fashion show in July 2016, or the iconic 1960 picture from La Dolce Vita. Many of the early shots are enchanting: either lantern slide images enlarged, or hand coloured sepia pictures, such as the Pantheon in 1905, or Tivoli hill from the same year. St Peter's features repeatedly, and looks heavenly with a beam of light extending down into the dim interior in one image. There are many images of the celebrities of the Dolce Vita era, including Sophia Loren on her balcony in 1955, or Audrey Hepburn & Gregory Peck in Roman Holiday. A rare shot from 1890 shows Buffalo Bill at a cafe with two Indians in headdress. They were in town for a 'Wild West' show. There are plenty of people shots, of children playing in alleyways, colourful markets, a shoeshine boy, priests playing volleyball, fashionably dressed women, cats being fed in 1951, and a 1957 double page colour image of men playing football against a dramatic backdrop of ancient aqueducts. The book tries to include more than just the tourist sights, or the stereotypical images of vespas and pasta. Altogether, a fine tribute to an amazing city.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Superb photographs
*by J***N on 4 August 2022*

It is pure enjoyment

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The eternal city in one book
*by B***E on 26 January 2018*

If you love Rome - you will love this beautiful book. If you don’t know Rome, you will get to know and love it from this book.

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