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Rome, the Eternal city, is universally famed for its unbroken millenary artistic tradition, paradigmatic of western art in general. The course will survey the art and architecture of Rome from antiquity to contemporary times, with on-site examination of renowned masterpieces of painting, sculpture, architecture, and attention to their specific historical contexts and interrelated meanings. The focus of the course will be the development of an architectural vocabulary, of codes of representation and self-representation, of visual narrative strategies, and the survival of the classical tradition. The course will furthermore consider how Rome’s long architectural and artistic tradition reflects and impacts upon contemporary art and architecture and, more generally, the city approach to the related issues of cultural heritage and preservation.