Views of Rome: Anteiquae Urbis Imago

Views of Rome: Anteiquae Urbis Imago

About

Views of Rome is the online home of the 1773 edition of Pirro Ligorio’s Anteiquae Urbis Imago (Image of the Ancient City) held at Emory University. Originally published in 1561, the Imago is a cartographic reconstruction of fourth-century AD Rome. A high-resolution scan of the map exists as an interactive digital tool for use by students in the classroom and by members of the general public.

The Map

Anteiquae Urbis Imago (Image of the Ancient City), Pirro Ligorio, 1561
Engraving
Published by Michele Tramezzino, republished 1773 by Carlo Losi
132.1 x 152.4 cm (52 x 60 inches)
Michael C. Carlos Museum 2007.35.1
Available at MARBL, Emory Library Catalog Call No. G6714 .R7 L53 1773 FOLIO
The Anteiquae Urbis Imago represents the culmination of Ligorio’s considerable knowledge and skill as an antiquarian, architect, and artist. Like its immediate predecessors, most notably Leonard Bufalini’s 1551 map of modern Rome, the Imago is oriented such that north is to the left. Ligorio drew upon ancient literary testimony, coins, inscriptions, reliefs, and archaeological remains in order to locate and give form to the structural inhabitants of the ancient city. The map is a visual manifestation of his arguments concerning these matters of topography and original appearance, employing bird’s eye perspective as a means of illustration. The map is also a reflection of Ligorio’s antiquarian interest in exhibiting the city to his audience as a restored whole. That is to say that Ligorio extrapolated the evidence at his disposal in order to account for missing information, preferring to fill in the blank spaces rather than represent a city of fragmented parts.
Selected Bibliography:  D. Coffin, Pirro Ligorio: The Renaissance Artist, Architect and Antiquarian, with a Checkist of Drawings (University Park 2004); J. Connors, Piranesi and the Campus Martius: The Missing Corso. Topography and Archaeology in Eighteenth-Century Rome (Milan 2011) 57-60; R. Gaston, Pirro Ligorio: Artist and Antiquarian (Milan 1988); E. R. Varner (forthcoming 2013).

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TerraWatchers: Crowd Sourced Satellite Image Analysis

TerraWatchers: Crowd Sourced Satellite Image Analysis

Who We Are

TerraWatchers is dedicated to providing web-based, crowdsourced satellite image monitoring and overwatch tools for critical missions related to current events. We use interactive Google Maps© interfaces to display the latest freely available, high-resolution satellite imagery in our mission footprints.

Get Involved!

The public can participate in our citizen science efforts, and get involved in our missions by registering on the form to the right. Registered users can view and annotate satellite images with markers specific to our various missions. We provide training images for our missions, so you can see what we're looking for, and how to annotate our images.

Only registered users can annotate the satellite images with observations, so please remember to Register first, using the form in the upper right corner. If you are registering, press the "Register Here" button; it will open a small form, where we collect your name, email address, a password, and a password reminder. That's all the personal information we need, and we don't share it with others. Once you've registered, you can log in with your email address and password.

TerraWatchers.org Results Report as of September 2, 2015, 11:47 am (Arizona)

TerraWatchers.org currently has 162 registered users.

Currently, 63 users have contributed to
"The Impact of Military Activity and Looting on Archaeological Sites in Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq"

98.380% of the seedpoints in the mission have been visited at least once.
There have been 9,574 visits to 2,551 of 2,593 seedpoints, an average of 3.753 visits per seedpoint.
Users have made 2,264 observations on 1,250 seedpoints (49.000% of visited seedpoints), an average of 1.811 observations per seedpoint.

Observations:

• 34 users observed 521 instances of "Looting" on/near 243 seedpoints (9.526%).
• 19 users observed 84 instances of "Air Defense" on/near 56 seedpoints (2.195%).
• 36 users observed 343 instances of "Revetment/Berm" on/near 189 seedpoints (7.409%).
• 20 users observed 88 instances of "Military Hardware" on/near 63 seedpoints (2.470%).
• 23 users observed 88 instances of "Trench" on/near 67 seedpoints (2.626%).
• 19 users observed 85 instances of "Bunker/Shelter" on/near 58 seedpoints (2.274%).
• 17 users observed 46 instances of "Other Structure" on/near 39 seedpoints (1.529%).
• 24 users observed 89 instances of "Impact Crater" on/near 66 seedpoints (2.587%).
• 9 users observed 50 instances of "Other" on/near 36 seedpoints (1.411%).
• 1 users observed 513 instances of "Confirmed" on/near 190 seedpoints (7.448%).
• 2 users observed 357 instances of "Correction" on/near 110 seedpoints (4.312%).

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The Interactive Nolli Map

[First posted in AWOL 10 July 2009, updated 13 June 2014]

The Interactive Nolli Map

The Nolli Web Site

The Nolli Web Site presents the 1748 Nolli map of Rome as a dynamic, interactive, hands-on tool. The public now has access to cataloged information about the map in both written and graphical form. The map not only provides rich information, but it has the ability to be updated with new data over time to embrace expanding knowledge.

The interactive Nolli Map Web Site intends to:

1) resurrect the integrity of the original Nolli map,
2) greatly enhance the quality and flexibility of its visual display
3) grant easy access for scholars and students alike to a vast body of information.

Conception and Definition of the Project

The 1748 Nolli map of Rome, regarded by scholars and cartographers as one of the most important historical documents of the city, serves to geo-reference a vast body of information to better understand the Eternal City and its key role in shaping Western Civilization. The Nolli Map Web Site introduces students to Rome and the structure of its urban form; it illustrates the evolution of the city over time; and it reveals diverse factors that determined its development. Above all, the Nolli Web Site is intended to provide a vehicle for students and teachers around the world to explore and facilitate creative thought...

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