Time of Rome: Topography of Eternity

Abstract

On September 10, 2024, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow) hosted a presentation of the Catalog of the large-scale exhibition Three Times of Rome. Antiquity. Renaissance. Baroque. Within its framework, a fascinating discussion unfolded, summing up the results of this exhibition project. The exposition, almost entirely based on Roman view engravings of the 16th – 18th centuries — a refined and exclusive material, — unexpectedly aroused wide interest, gathering a record number of visitors for the holiday season. The article makes an attempt to analyze the reasons for its popularity, as well as to summarize the issues raised by it.

Keywords

• rome
• antiquity
• renaissance
• baroque
• poetics of ruins
• view engraving
• sixtus v
• raphael
• bernini
• domenico fontana
• antonio tempesta