Mike's Guide to Rome app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Michael P Mezzatesta
First release : 13 May 2020
App size: 175.56 Mb
Mikes Essential, Eccentric Waking Guide to Baroque Rome offers an introduction to the art and monuments that define the Baroque Style. Twenty four audio chapters and 14 text guide the listener on individual tours from St. Peters Basilica, to Berninis Four Rivers Fountain, to the Galleria Borghese, and Berninis Ecstasy of St. Theresa. Visitors can follow the eight itineraries or select their own visits according to their interests and time.
The Application offers historic background for the artists and the commissions; the ideas informing the works, ideas rooted in the Catholic Counter Reformation; and an interactive reading of the the works of art designed to develop the listeners visual literacy.