<p>In this illustrated video podcast art historian Jessica Maier, Mount Holyoke College, talks passionately about her extensive research into the history of Rome through the eyes of mapmakers and artists who have reimagined, reconstructed, and represented Rome and its landmarks over the course of the past three millennia, as The Eternal City changed on the ground.Host: author and filmmaker Howard Burton.</p><p><br></p><p>Chapters:</p><p>0:00 Introduction</p><p>1:21 From an antique map store to an academic career in maps </p><p>6:30 Flexible membership to the map historian&#39;s club</p><p>12:56 Alberti&#39;s synthesizing treatises on maps in the 15th century</p><p>15:39 Detective work to reconstruct Francesco Rosselli&#39;s maps</p><p>22:21 The Bufalini map of Rome, a hybrid of science and imagination </p><p>29:39 Renaissance fashion of mapping past and present together </p><p>36:33 A close look at Nolli&#39;s satellite-like map and the art framing it </p><p>40:35 Vasi&#39;s panoramic-style Prospetto map and the stories it tells</p><p>47:04 Piranesi&#39;s representations of Rome and the Forma Urbis Romae</p><p>51:19 Surprising new interpretations of maps and the process of discovery</p><p>55:26 Maps as communication tools for news</p><p><br></p><p>* For essays about art by Howard Burton, visit our Exploring Art History blog: https://ideasroadshow.substack.com/</p><p>* Website: https://ideasroadshow.com/</p><p>The music in this video is licensed from Art List.</p>