Parution : Guendalina Ajello Mahler, “Monumental Transformations. Reuse, Adaptation and the Evolution of Rome’s Theaters After Antiquity”, Turnhout, Brepols, 2024
This book is an exploration of the layers of Rome: the accumulations of centuries of habitation that make the city a fascinating and sometimes confounding palimpsest. This architectural coexistence is perhaps most nakedly on display at the sites of the ancient theaters of Marcellus and Pompey. Here ancient, medieval. early modern and contemporary elements are interwoven in a way that produced some of the strangest buildings in Rome. Drawing on archival sources, pictorial records and...