Jessica Maier
Autor von Rom – Zentrum der Welt : Die Geschichte der Stadt in Karten, Plänen und Veduten
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- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA
- Wohnorte
- Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
- Ausbildung
- Columbia University (M.A.|1999|M.Phil.|2001|Ph.D|2006)
Brown University (BA|1996) - Berufe
- art historian
professor - Beziehungen
- Maier, Pauline (mother)
Maier, Charles S. (father)
Camerlenghi, Nicola (husband) - Organisationen
- Mount Holyoke College
- Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Fellow, American Academy in Rome
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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)… (mehr)