The Architecture of the Roman Empire

The Architecture of the Roman Empire

Author: William Lloyd MacDonald

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1982-01-01

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780300034707

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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


A Companion to Roman Architecture

A Companion to Roman Architecture

Author: Roger B. Ulrich

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-10-10

Total Pages: 511

ISBN-13: 1118325133

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A Companion to Roman Architecture presents a comprehensive review of the critical issues and approaches that have transformed scholarly understanding in recent decades in one easy-to-reference volume. Offers a cross-disciplinary approach to Roman architecture, spanning technology, history, art, politics, and archaeology Brings together contributions by leading scholars in architectural history An essential guide to recent scholarship, covering new archaeological discoveries, lesser known buildings, new technologies and space and construction Includes extensive, up-to-date bibliography and glossary of key Roman architectural terms


Innovative Vaulting in the Architecture of the Roman Empire

Innovative Vaulting in the Architecture of the Roman Empire

Author: Lynne C. Lancaster

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-11-12

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1107059356

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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.


The Architecture of the Roman Triumph

The Architecture of the Roman Triumph

Author: Maggie L. Popkin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-07-22

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1316578038

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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.


Architectural Restoration and Heritage in Imperial Rome

Architectural Restoration and Heritage in Imperial Rome

Author: Christopher Siwicki

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0198848579

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Challenging the idea that heritage is a purely modern phenomenon, this volume addresses how historic buildings were treated in Imperial Rome, examining the way in which the ancients restored the monuments they inherited from earlier generations and developing our understanding of the Roman concept of built heritage.


The Architecture of Roman Temples

The Architecture of Roman Temples

Author: John W. Stamper

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-02-16

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 9780521810685

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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.


The Genesis of Roman Architecture

The Genesis of Roman Architecture

Author: John North Hopkins

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2016-02-09

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 0300214367

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This groundbreaking study traces the development of Roman architecture and its sculpture from the earliest days to the middle of the 5th century BCE. Existing narratives cast the Greeks as the progenitors of classical art and architecture or rely on historical sources dating centuries after the fact to establish the Roman context. Author John North Hopkins, however, allows the material and visual record to play the primary role in telling the story of Rome’s origins, synthesizing important new evidence from recent excavations. Hopkins’s detailed account of urban growth and artistic, political, and social exchange establishes strong parallels with communities across the Mediterranean. From the late 7th century, Romans looked to increasingly distant lands for shifts in artistic production. By the end of the archaic period they were building temples that would outstrip the monumentality of even those on the Greek mainland. The book’s extensive illustrations feature new reconstructions, allowing readers a rare visual exploration of this fragmentary evidence.