The city of Rome is the largest archaeological site in the world; capital and showcase of the Roman Empire and the centre of Christian Europe.This guide provides:middot; Coverage of all the important sites in the city from 800 BC to AD 600 and the start of the early middle ages; drawing on the latest discoveries and the best of recent scholarshipmiddot; Over 220 high-quality maps; site plans; diagrams and photographsmiddot; Sites divided into fourteen main areas; with star ratings to help you plan and prioritize your visit:Roman Forum; Upper Via Sacra; Palatine; Imperial Forums; Campus Martius; Capitoline Hill; Circus Flaminius to Circus Maximus; Colosseum and Esquiline hill; Caelian hill and the inner via Appia; Lateran to Porta Maggiore; Viminal hill; Pyramid to Testaccio; the outer via Appia; other outlying sites; Museums and Catacombs.middot; Introduction offering essential background to the history and culture of ancient Rome; placing the city in the context of the development of the empire; highlighting the nature of Roman achievement; and explaining how Rome came to be the largest city in the ancient world.middot; Comprehensive glossaries of Romes building materials; techniques and building types; a chronological table of kings; emperors; and the early popes; information about opening times; references and suggestions for further reading and a detailed user-friendly index.For this new edition the original text has been extensively revised; adding over 20 more sites and illustrations; the itineraries have been re-organized and expanded to suit the many changes that have taken place in the past decade; and the practical information and references have been fully updated.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. elegance and consistency in style and execution.By ValentinaI highly reccommend to buy and take your time to fully read this book for three reason: overall elegance of the body of work; consistency of style and coherence of execution; working and approaching clients method.Personally speaking it made my wedding pictures change from "How nice" to "Great. I really mean it".Damien and July Lovegrove are good photographers; with a distinctive style. The consistency of style and execution is quite rare in the other wedding photography books I own. Many of them are full of good pictures; but lack a fil rouge: a stylistic approach to hold the pictures togheter. Develop your own style instead of just taking romantic pictures a wedding after the other is what every photographer should aim to for not being "just another one more".The book reflects and explain in details the Lovegroves way of working giving both technical advices and a strict avoid-problems-before-they-actually-happen method.I agree with David Asche about the layout of the book and the sudden breaks in the middle of paragraphs and sentences. Thats why I rate the book 4 star instead of 5. Please consider that you need to have the basics to fully enjoy this book. Its not a book for beginners.3 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Preaty Good...By luisOk first of all english is not my first language; sorry if theres grammer errors...Great book...very visual...it did help me to get more inspired; it open my mind for been more creative; organize....2 bad point were that the author was more focus in his point of view of why he do things; and why he works the way he does.... so that this keep you with some doubts of how many ways of creating an organize wedding companie are?? and how many pros agree of his opinions... opinions are opinions but there will always be good and bad desisions of starting a wedding...2nd point is that the author is from england or europe and he focus on prices with different money npt dollars.... plus am from Puerto Rico.... his prices are way up (starting at 3;000 dollars if im not mistaken) the normal salary in PR is not evan close to what he talks so; it kept me with doubts and for that reason i will give this book 4 stars....but its a 100% visual and inspiren for the one who always have problems with comeing up with good ideas...0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Fantastic Book from a great Photographer.By Juan KFantitastic Book for someone who want to persue the carreer of Wedding Photographer.Damien Lovegrove is a great photographer with a lot of experience in this bussiness. Now he is a public speaker and educator; and dont shoot weddins anymore.For January 2016 might be dated; but it has a lot of very valuable information.