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Hadrian's Villa and Its Legacy | 
 enlarge | Authors: William L. Macdonald, John A. Pinto
Publisher: Yale University Press
Category: Book
Buy Used: $65.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 1814240
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 508
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.4
Dimensions (in): 10.5 x 10 x 1.5
ISBN: 0300053819
Dewey Decimal Number: 725.1709376
EAN: 9780300053814
ASIN: 0300053819
Publication Date: June 28, 1995
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Condition: very good condition oversize extensively illustrated 1995 Yale Univ. Press hardcover, without dust jacket - covers with minor shelfwear; tight and sturdy binding; unmarked pages but has architectural company's bookplate on endpaper that has a signature and two word gift inscription on it - otherwise unblemished - ready to ship (International and expedited customers, please inquire about shipping options and rates)
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Product Description
The great Villa constructed by the Emperor Hadrian near Tivoli between A.D. 118 and the 130s is one of the most original monuments in the history of architecture and art. In this beautiful book, two distinguished architectural historians describe and interpret the Villa as it existed in Roman times and track its extraordinary effect on architects and artists up to the present day.
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 A wonderful site and a book that does it justice September 19, 2008
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
We visited Hadian's Villa several years ago, and although I've thought about the visit several times since, 100 Great Journeys brought the villa alive again.
The photographs are very effective both in memory and in certain measure to show me sections of the ruins I didn't see or don't remember. The view of the pool and the artificial grotto named Canopus and Serapeum is particularly beautiful. (Poor Apollodorus of Damascus: "Go away and draw your pumpkins. You know nothing about architectural matters." Mocking Hardrian's dome eventually proved fatal.)
I was struck by the size of the horse stables; they seemed to go on forever and there is an interesting view here that shows their magnitude.
Our guides told us that Hadrian suffered from severe headaches near the end of his life. He reportedly spent much time alone in the Maritime Theater, a round portico with a barrel vault supported by pillars. Inside is a ring-shaped pool with a central island. There were two drawbridges and a small Roman house with an atrium, a library, a triclinium and small baths.
This book is well produced with excellent pictures, drawings and plans, and with careful, accurate descriptions of the small parts of the villa that have been excavated. There is an excellent bibliography. Altogether, an excellent guide on the ground or at home remembering.
Robert C. Ross 2008
 About timeless beauty March 2, 2004
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
First of all, it is a beautiful book. For anyone who already has visited the Villa, just the cover is truly moving, with the line of trees next the palestra, as moving is the Piranesi graffiti photo. The reader must also understand the book is about a ruin and accept some degree of frustration with descriptions and the current outlook of monuments, but MacDonald and Pinto are very sucessful in freeing our imagination to wander among the profound design and intentions of Hadria's Villa. A collection of monuments that is too the empire, the memories of a life and a message to the future. Even the authors seemed amazed, for instance, by the Maritime Theater plan or the use of landscape. It is a book to be read again and again.
The ancient Romans created a provocative architecture. February 16, 1998
23 out of 25 found this review helpful
MacDonald/Pinto assert that Hadrian forged a new and innovative architectural system which integrated buildings with nature and human use. Hadrian's goal was to create an arrangement of buildings which were functional and yet challenged the intellect to contemplate the unseen world. They also make a very strong case for the pervasive influence which this complex villa has had on archtecture from ancient times to the present. This book makes one realize that Roman architecture is indeed relevant to the present.
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