The Architecture of Roman Temples
The Republic to the Middle Empire
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- Author: John W. Stamper, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
- Date Published: May 2008
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521723718
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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. Although archaeologists, architects, and historians have studied the temples of this period since the Renaissance, this book is unique for its specific analysis of Roman temples as a building type. John Stamper analyzes their formal qualities, the public spaces in which they were located and, most importantly, the authority of precedent in their designs. The basis of that authority was the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus, the city's first and most important temple. Stamper challenges the accepted reconstruction of this temple, proposing a new reconstruction, and assessing its role in the transformation of Rome. 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 effects of new stylistic influences.
Read more- Covers the evolution of Roman architecture from the earliest Etrusco-Roman temples through the Imperial period
- New graphic documentation of the Roman temples, including information about the latest archaeological excavations of the imperial fora
- Proposes new theories about the reconstruction of the Capitoline Temple
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- Date Published: May 2008
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521723718
- length: 304 pages
- dimensions: 272 x 213 x 14 mm
- weight: 0.71kg
- contains: 162 b/w illus. 7 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction: the authority of precedent
1. Building the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus
2. A new reconstruction of the temple
3. Etrusco-Roman temples of the Early Republic
4. Assimilation of Hellenistic architecture after the Punic Wars
5. The Corinthian Order in the First Century B.C.
6. Architecture and ceremony in the time of Pompey and Julius Caesar
7. Rebuilding Rome in the time of Augustus
8. Augustus and the Temple of Mars Ultor
9. Temples and fora of the Flavian Emperors
10. Trajan's Forum
11. Hadrian's Pantheon
12. Hadrian and the Antonines.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Etruscan and Roman Art
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