A Text-Book of the History of Architecture: Seventh Edition, revisedHamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster)
History
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture: Seventh Edition, revised
Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster)
Architecture -- History
THERMÆ: of
Agrippa, 27 B.C.; _of Nero_; of Titus, 78 A.D. _Domitian_, 90
A.D.; Caracalla, 211 A.D.; Diocletian, 305 A.D.; _Constantine_,
320 A.D.; “Minerva Medica,” 3d or 4th century A.D. ARCHES: _of
Stertinius_, 196 B.C.; _Scipio_, 190 B.C.; _Augustus_, 30 B.C.;
Titus, 71-82 A.D.; _Trajan_, 117 A.D.; Severus, 203 A.D.;
Constantine, 320 A.D.; of Drusus, Dolabella, Silversmiths, 204
A.D.; Janus Quadrifrons, 320 A.D. (?); all at Rome. Others at
Benevento, Ancona, Rimini in Italy; also at Athens, and at Reims
and St. Chamas in France. Columns of Trajan, _Antoninus_, Marcus
Aurelius at Rome, others at Constantinople, Alexandria, etc.
TOMBS: along Via Appia and Via Latina, at Rome; Via Sacra at
Pompeii; tower-tombs at St. Rémy in France; rock-cut at Petra; at
Rome, of Caius Cestius and Cecilia Metella, 1st century B.C.; of
Augustus, 14 A.D.; Hadrian, 138 A.D. PALACES and PRIVATE HOUSES:
On Palatine, of Augustus, Tiberius, Nero, Domitian, Septimius
Severus, _Elagabalus_; Villa of Hadrian at Tivoli; palaces of
Diocletian at Spalato and _of Constantine_ at Constantinople.
House of Livia on Palatine (Augustan period); of Vestals, rebuilt
by Hadrian, cir. 120 A.D. Houses at Pompeii and Herculanum, cir.
60-79 A.D.; Villas of Gordianus (“Tor’ de’ Schiavi,” 240 A.D.),
and _of Sallust_ at Rome and _of Pliny_ at Laurentium.
CHAPTER X.
EARLY CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE.
BOOKS RECOMMENDED: Bunsen, _Die Basiliken christlichen Roms_.
Butler, _Architecture and other Arts in Northern Central Syria_.
Corroyer, _L’architecture romane_. Cummings, _A History of
Architecture in Italy_. Essenwein (Handbuch d. Architektur),
_Ausgänge der klassischen Baukunst_. Gutensohn u. Knapp,
_Denkmäler der christlichen Religion_. Hübsch, _Monuments de
l’architecture chrétienne_. Lanciani, _Pagan and Christian Rome_.
Mothes, _Die Basilikenform bei den Christen_, etc. Okely,
_Development of Christian Architecture in Italy_. Von Quast, _Die
altchristlichen Bauwerke zu Ravenna_. De Rossi, _Roma
Sotterranea_. De Vogüé, _Syrie Centrale_; _Églises de la Terre
Sainte_.
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