Author: Nigel Rodgers Publisher: ISBN: 9780754827290 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 0
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The Romans built lavishly across their empire, founding or refounding magnificent cities like Carthage and Petra. Discover the wonders of Roman architecture, from the city of Rome itself to Palmyra and Pompeii.
Author: William Lloyd MacDonald Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 9780300028195 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 404
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Examines Roman architecture as a party of overall urban design and looks at arches, public buildings, tombs, columns, stairs, plazas, and streets
Author: Lynne C. Lancaster Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107059356 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 281
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This book on Roman construction explains why and how Roman builders employed a set of unusual vaulting techniques and explores why each is confined to a particular area of the Empire. It is written to be accessible to advanced students as well as experts in the field.
Author: John W. Stamper Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521810685 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 450
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This book examines the development of Roman temple architecture from its earliest history in the sixth century BC to the reigns of Hadrian and the Antonines in the second century AD. John Stamper analyzes the temples' formal qualities, the public spaces in which they were located and, most importantly, the authority of precedent in their designs. He also traces Rome's temple architecture as it evolved over time and how it accommodated changing political and religious contexts, as well as the affects of new stylistic influences.
Author: Henri Stierlin Publisher: ISBN: 9783822817780 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 240
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Covers all the major Roman amphitheatres and arenas, temples and baths, aqueducts and fortresses, but also Pompeii and Hardpan's Villa at Tivoli Monumental in scale and technically highly developed, the architecture that produced the forums, baths, and aqueducts of the Roman Empire still dazzles us today. This volume deals with Roman architecture in Italy, France, Spain, the Rhineland and North Africa. Starting with Villanova and Etruscan culture, it includes the major buildings of the late Roman Republic and principally those of the Empire. Pompeii, the Golden House of Nero, Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli, and the Diokletian baths among many more, are considered. This volume describes an architectural history that interprets the entire Roman culture rather than merely describing its buildings, offering a new and exciting contribution to the history of Roman Architecture.
Author: Frank Sear Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134635788 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 289
Book Description
In this comprehensive, accessible and beautifully illustrated book, Frank Sear traces the evolution of Roman architecture during the four centuries from the late Republic to AD 330, when Constantine moved the empire's capital to Constantinople. With over 200 diagrams, maps and photos, this lucid and eminently readable account is a detailed overview of the development of architecture from Augustine to Constantine. Covering building techniques and materials as well as architecture and patronage, features include: * deployment of the most recent archaeological evidence * consideration of building materials and methods used by Roman engineers and architects * examination of stylistic innovations * analysis of the historical and cultural contexts of Roman architecture * detailed exploration of key Roman sites including Ostia and Pompeii. In high demand since its initial publication, this book will not disappoint in its purpose to educate and delight those in the field of Roman architecture.
Author: Maggie L. Popkin Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1316578038 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 297
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This book offers the first critical study of the architecture of the Roman triumph, ancient Rome's most important victory ritual. Through case studies ranging from the republican to imperial periods, it demonstrates how powerfully monuments shaped how Romans performed, experienced, and remembered triumphs and, consequently, how Romans conceived of an urban identity for their city. Monuments highlighted Roman conquests of foreign peoples, enabled Romans to envision future triumphs, made triumphs more memorable through emotional arousal of spectators, and even generated distorted memories of triumphs that might never have occurred. This book illustrates the far-reaching impact of the architecture of the triumph on how Romans thought about this ritual and, ultimately, their own place within the Mediterranean world. In doing so, it offers a new model for historicizing the interrelations between monuments, individual and shared memory, and collective identities.
Author: Mark Wilson Jones Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 030010202X Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 288
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The architects of ancient Rome developed a vibrant and enduring tradition, inspiring those who followed in their profession even to this day. This book explores how Roman architects went about the creative process.
Author: Ada Gabucci Publisher: Getty Publications ISBN: 9780892366569 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 148
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Accompanied by the masterpieces and memories of illustrious figures, we follow the arc of a city and a civilization from its beginnings to its height and fall, leafing through pages of history from the various eras. Rome was the final act of antiquity, and a dramatic conception of a new world."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Nigel Rodgers
Author: William Lloyd MacDonald
Author: Lynne C. Lancaster
Author: John W. Stamper
Author: Henri Stierlin
Author: Frank Sear
Author: Nigel Rodgers
Author: Maggie L. Popkin
Author: Mark Wilson Jones
Author: Ada Gabucci