I was reading this book and thinking about it at an altitude of 10,000 meters from Sanya, the coast of the South China Sea, at 18 degrees north latitude, to Harbin, a northern ice city at 44 degrees north latitude. From one city to another, each city seems to be unique due to the great differences in geographical location, climate, etc. Sanya has attracted the attention of the world with its unique sunshine, sand and waves. And "Erbin" is frozen in the north of the country, and it stands proudly on the whole network this winter.
The hometown of Harbin has a distinct European style. Byzantine Hagia Sophia, the central street of Renaissance buildings...... Walking through the city streets of Harbin, you feel like you are on the European continent. The perfect fusion of these European and new Chinese styles stems from the history of Harbin's modern urban development. Therefore, history has created a city, and the "model capital" will always be moved and reproduced.
In the process of creating a city, the city of humanistic models has been imitated and copied, and each city has both commonality and characteristics, which is expanding, replicating and innovating.
Title: The Moving Holy City: A Hidden Biography of Four Eurasian Cities
Editor-in-Chief: Li Jun
Author: Liu Shuang
Publisher: Jiangsu Phoenix Fine Arts Publishing House
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This book is the author's in-depth investigation of the Portuguese "Roman city", the Portuguese colony, and the image of the city of Macao, showing the "moving" image of the "Holy City Landscape" between Eurasia. It will present a panoramic view of the historical context from Rome, Lisbon to the East, and then extend the image of many "Roman cities" on the Eurasian continent.
As the holy city of "Rome", the former capital of the empire, the Portuguese launched a seafaring expedition to move around the world to copy the city of Rome, and later arrived in the historical process of China. Let's open the curtain on history and meet Rome in the East.
Rome was originally a mountain city, and the concept of building a city on a mountain has gradually become a common feature of Roman cities, building a city on a hill in the Mediterranean world. In the Renaissance period, the establishment and transmission of the City of Seven Hills was the starting point, and it was the formation and spread of the landscape of the holy city of Rome. With a classical background close to the ideal, it became a model for the interior and even the Iberian city to emulate. Since then, the phenomenon of the Holy City has been in full swing in Eurasia.
Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, has launched a series of projects to "rebuild Rome", rewriting the image of the holy city and trying to get closer to the ideal of the holy city. On the east coast of the North Atlantic, a new Rome in the age of sea power was created.
With the expansion of the empire, the Portuguese people's dream of a holy city also sailed from the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian Ocean, bringing their highland concept to various coasts and islands in the Indian Ocean, and Goa in India was rewritten as the "Rome of the East".
In China, the destination of the Portuguese, the strong oriental tradition thwarted the once "mountain city ideal", but in Macau, a "Rome on the water" towers over the peninsula.
The moving holy city is, to put it bluntly, a competition for power and financial resources.
This book is part of a series of books entitled China to the World: A Cross-Cultural History of Art. From the two-way perspective of "the world to China" and "the East to the West", the library will regard the import of world art to China and the contribution of Oriental art to the West as two inseparable aspects of the process of establishing a cross-cultural art history narrative. What the library expects is not only the essence of exchange between Eastern and Western cultures, but also history itself, which is actually the life of spitting out the old and absorbing the new, and returning to the original. The significance of this library is of great significance to China, history, and art history.
This is a book that combines history and fine arts, and it is a book that is often read and always new, and it is very good. It is also great for making New Year's gifts for friends and family. #Historical Review##Record My Life#
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