The Sack of Rome, 1527

An illustrated study of the sack as a cultural and artistic phenomenon that reveals the ambiguities of preceding events, and the traumatic contrast between the flourishing world of art under Clement VII, and the city as it existed after the troops of Emperor Charles V had looted Rome in 1527.

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This richly illustrated study of the sack as a cultural and artistic phenomenon reveals the ambiguities of preceding events and the traumatic contrast between the flourishing world of art under Clement VII, and the city as it existed after the troops of Emperor Charles V had looted Rome in 1527.