This richly illustrated study of the sack as a cultural and artistic phenomenon reveals the ambiguities of preceding events and the traumatic contrast between the flourishing world of art under Clement VII, and the city as it existed after the troops of Emperor Charles V had looted Rome in 1527.
- ISBN10 0691099472
- ISBN13 9780691099477
- Publish Date 21 March 1983
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 January 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Princeton University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 430
- Language English
- URL https://press.princeton.edu/titles/278.html