"Édifices de Rome Moderne"
Hosted by the School of Architecture Exhibit Committee
This exhibit features the reproductions of engravings and original photographs
documenting buildings of Renaissance and Baroque Rome as depicted by Paul
Marie Letarouilly in his three volume Édifices de Rome Moderne. The main body
of research was done from 2003- 2006. An exhibition of 100 black and white
plates and 5 oversized color images has been created to tour the United States
beginning in the fall of 2008. Plates are 17” x 22” framed images. A hyperlinked
matrix including project, plate and rione (district in Rome) information, address
location and photographs has been compiled to accompany the investigation.
Édifices de Rome Moderne forms the basis for an investigation of Rome – then
and now, a comparison of the Rome depicted by Paul Marie Letarouilly and the
existing state of the edifices. The research conducted by Kevin Hinders with
Research Assistants Carole Pekney, Michael Waters, Cory Colman and Magdalena
P. Zdankiewicz locates and documents the existing structures and the present
state of the buildings depicted in 354 plates. The subsequent investigations
illustrate both historic changes and original misrepresentations.