Previous ed. published as: Roma: l'arte nei secoli. Udine : Magnus, c1999.

The development of the city of Rome / Filippo Coarelli -- Roman art and architecture from its beginnings to the Flavian dynasty / Fabrizio Pesando and Maria Paola Guidobaldi -- Roman coins / Fabrizio Pesando -- Art, power, and consensus: from Trajan to Constantine / Emidio de Albentiis -- Early Christian art and architecture / Margherita Cecchelli -- Early Christian art / Fabrizio Bisconti -- Medieval architecture / Mario D'Onofrio -- Medieval sculpture / Virginia Leonardis -- Medieval metalwork / Maria Giulia Barberini -- Pictorial art from the fifth to the fourteenth century / Alessandro Tomei -- The fifteenth century: the early Renaissance. Architecture ; Sculpture ; Painting / Gioia Mori -- The sixteenth century: the golden age. Architecture ; Sculpture / Stefano Borsi ; Painting / Gioia Mori -- The Rome of the saints: the Baroque. The new architectural face of the city ; The garden of Rome ; Sculpture ; Seventeenth century painting and Caravaggio's challenge -- The eighteenth century. Architecture and town planning ; Sculpture ; Painting ; Roman festivals / Marco Bussagli -- The nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Art between 1900-1945 / Fabio Benzi.