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标题：Rome
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作者：Robert Hughes
期刊名称：Transnational Literature
电子版ISSN：1836-4845
出版年度：2012
卷号：4
期号：2
出版社：Flinders Humanities Research Centre
摘要：You can glean a lot about a book from its cover. The bold red and black typeface of Robert Hughes’ Rome gives equal prominence to the name of the author and to the title. We are promised Robert Hughes’ history of Rome, the views of ‘probably the best – and certainly the most accessible – art critic in the world.’1 Hughes is a gifted Australian writer whose work ranges from history to memoir-writing; he is famous for his area of greatest expertise, his scholarly criticism of art. His books include The Art of Australia (1966), The Shock of the New (1980) and The Culture of Complaint (1993). Hughes has worked as a television commentator and broadcaster, and he was Time magazine’s art critic for more than thirty years. Asked to name a contemporary art critic, many people – and certainly most Australians – would cite Robert Hughes. So Hughes’ Rome is a city of art and artists: Michelangelo, Raphael, Caravaggio, Bernini, Titian … it is a pleasure to gain access to the wonders of the city’s art and architecture through his experienced and knowledgeable eyes. Take, for example, his observations on the Sistine Chapel: