Author : Ada Gabucci
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,92 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780892366569
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
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,3 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780754827290
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 : Mark Wilson Jones
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 14,96 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 030010202X
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 : James C. Anderson jr
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,89 MB
Release : 2002-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801869815
Focusing primarily on Rome and other cities of central Italy, James C. Anderson, jr., describes the training, career path, and social status of both architects and builders. He explains how the construction industry was organized—from marble and timber suppliers to bricklayers and carpenters. He examines the political, legal, and economic factors that determined what would be built, and where. And he shows how the various types of public and private Roman buildings relate to the urban space as a whole. Drawing on ancient literary sources as well as on contemporary scholarship, Roman Architecture and Society examines the origins of the architectural achievements, construction techniques, and discoveries that have had an incalculable influence on the postclassical Western world. This detailed and concise account will appeal not only to students and scholars of Roman history, but to all with an interest in ancient architecture and urban society.
Author : Roberto Cassanelli
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 12,14 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780892366804
Traditionally a critical component of the education of any architect was to draw the ruins of ancient Rome, reconstructing either from ancient sources or, more often, pure fantasy, what the original structures must have looked like. From this training emerged generations of architects imbued with the aesthetic ideals that would form the Neoclassical and Beaux-Arts building styles. In this magnificently printed volume are reproduced some of the most extraordinarily handsome drawings of the ruins of ancient Rome made by French "Prix de Rome" architects from 1775 through 1925. Accompanied by text that explains how the Prix de Rome was awarded and the significance of the prize in the history of architecture, as well as how the study of ancient models formed the basis for nineteenth- and early twentieth-century architectural styles, these drawings provide an invaluable understanding of how the modern imagination recorded and transformed ancient fragments into a modern architectural idiom.
Author : Maggie L. Popkin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 18,86 MB
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 1316578038
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 : Nigel Rodgers
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,60 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780754834205
An authoritative account of political and military history, art, architecture and culture, sumptously illustrated throughout.
Author : Frank Sear
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 30,3 MB
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1134635788
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 : Carmelo G. Malacrino
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 24,76 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1606060163
A survey of building techniques & architecture from the 3rd century B.C. through the fifth century A.D., this volume explores how the Greeks of the classical period & later the Romans created a complex & innovative built environment.
Author : John W. Stamper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 11,87 MB
Release : 2005-02-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780521810685
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.
