A Text-Book of the History of Architecture: Seventh Edition, revisedHamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster)
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A Text-Book of the History of Architecture: Seventh Edition, revised
Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster)
Architecture -- History
preserved in the Museo delle Terme. More or less fragmentary remains of
Roman houses have been found in almost every corner of the Roman empire,
but nowhere exhibiting as completely as in Pompeii the typical Roman
arrangement.
+WORKS OF UTILITY.+ A word should be said about Roman engineering works,
which in many cases were designed with an artistic sense of proportion
and form which raises them into the domain of genuine art. Such were
especially the bridges, in which a remarkable effect of monumental
grandeur was often produced by the form and proportions of the arches
and piers, and an appropriate use of rough and dressed masonry, as in
the Pons Ælius (Ponte S. Angelo), the great bridge at Alcantara (Spain),
and the Pont du Gard, in southern France. The aqueducts are impressive
rather by their length, scale, and simplicity, than by any special
refinements of design, except where their arches are treated with some
architectural decoration to form gates, as in the Porta Maggiore, at
Rome.
+MONUMENTS:+ (Those which have no important extant remains are
given in italics.) TEMPLES: _Jupiter Capitolinus_, 600 B.C.;
_Ceres, Liber, and Libera_, 494 B.C. (ruins of later rebuilding in
S. Maria in Cosmedin); _first T. of Concord_ (rebuilt in Augustan
age), 254 B.C.; _first marble temple_ in _portico of Metellus_, by
a Greek, Hermodorus, 143 B.C.; temples of Fortune at Præneste and
at Rome, and of “Vesta” at Rome, 83-78 B.C.; of “Vesta” at Tivoli,
and of Hercules at Cori, 72 B.C.; _first Pantheon_, 27 B.C. In
Augustan Age temples of _Apollo_, Concord rebuilt, Dioscuri,
_Julius_, _Jupiter Stator_, _Jupiter Tonans_, Mars Ultor, Minerva
(_at Rome_ and Assisi), Maison Carrée at Nîmes, Saturn; at
Puteoli, Pola, etc. _T. of Peace_; _T. Jupiter Capitolinus_,
rebuilt 70 A.D.; temple at Brescia. Temple of Vespasian, 96 A.D.;
also _of Minerva_ in Forum of Nerva; _of Trajan_, 117 A.D.; second
Pantheon; T. of Venus and Rome at Rome, and of Jupiter Olympius at
Athens, 135-138 A.D.; Faustina, 141 A.D.; many in Syria; temples
of Sun at _Rome_, Baalbec, and Palmyra, cir. 273 A.D.; of Romulus,
305 A.D. (porch S. Cosmo and Damiano). PLACES OF ASSEMBLY:
FORA--Roman, Julian, 46 B.C.; Augustan, 40-42 B.C.; _of Peace_, 75
A.D.; Nerva, 97 A.D.; Trajan (by Apollodorus of Damascus, 117 A.D.)
BASILICAS: _Sempronian_, _Æmilian_, 1st century B.C.; Julian, 51
B.C.; _Septa Julia_, 26 B.C.; the Curia, later rebuilt by
Diocletian, 300 A.D. (now Church of S. Adriano); _at Fano_, 20
A.D. (?); Forum and Basilica at Pompeii, 60 A.D.; of Trajan; of
Constantine, 310-324 A.D. THEATRES (th.) and AMPHITHEATRES (amp.):
th. _Pompey_, 55 B.C.; of _Balbus_ and of Marcellus, 13 B.C.; th.
and amp. at Pompeii and Herculanum; Colosseum at Rome, 78-82 A.D.;
th. at Orange and in Asia Minor; amp. at Albano, Constantine,
Nîmes, Petra, Pola, Reggio, Trevi, Tusculum, Verona, etc.; amp.
Castrense at Rome, 96 A.D. Circuses and stadia at Rome.
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