The city where great history, grand theater, and stunning beauty are palpable everywhere. Where baroque splendor unfolds amidst ancient grandeur, where necks stretch to admire Michelangelo's ceiling fresco in the Sistine Chapel, where Fellini filmed La Dolce Vita, and where Mussolini erected a megalomaniacal monument to himself and fascist ideology in the EUR district. This heavyweight photographic portrait of Rome gathers hundreds of images from 1840 to the present and presents the history, art, and beauty of this unparalleled capital of culture. With nearly 500 photographs in sepia, black and white, and color, the volume features works by photographers such as Giacomo Caneva, Pompeo Molins, Giuseppe Primoli, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Carlo Bavagnoli, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Pasquale De Antonis, Peter Lindbergh, Slim Aarons, and William Klein.