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Rome

by Robert Hughes

  • HISTORY
  • 2012
  • PAPER
  • 512 PAGES

Opening with his own arrival in Rome in 1958 as a wide-eyed young Australian, the prolific art critic covers not just art, architecture, sculpture and painting but the whole cultural and social history of the city, including memorable portraits of important characters from Caesar to Cicero, Mussolini and Fellini.  (ITA267, $18.95)

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