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Introduction
• Basis on the classical stone
building of Greeks and Etruscans
• Reflects the practical needs--public works
• A combination of practicality and innovation
• Arches, Columns, Vaults, Temples, Theaters, Amphitheaters, Baths, Basilicas
Roman Aqueduct• 11 major aqueducts
in ancient Rome• The longest was 59
miles long(Anio Novus)
• Flowing into huge sisterns
• Providing water for emperor, rich citizens,public fountain and baths
Pont du Gard
• One of Rome’s most spectacular large-scale engineering project
• Part of a 25-mile-long aqueduct that brought fresh water to the city of Nimes in southern France
Pont du Gard• Built without mortar• Reflect the practical
function of arch • the bottom row:
supporting a bridge • the 2nd row: undergirding
the top channel through which water ran by gravity to its destination
Rome Amphitheaters
• Circus Maximus • Colosseum
Works cited
• http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Roman_Colosseum.html
• http://www.mariamilani.com/picscity/Rome_Colosseum_4.htm
The Pantheon Floor Plan
The Proportions of the Pantheon
• eight Corinthian columns
• the classical principles of symmetry and harmony
Works cited
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheon,_Rome
• http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Pantheon.html
• http://www.monolithic.com/thedome/pantheon/
• http://www.2020site.org/rome/romantemples.html
Basilica
Basilica is a rectangular colonnaded hall that was built for the commonly used in public assemblies.
Used as courts of law, meeting halls, and market places and some for baths
page 151 figure 6.16
page 152 figure 6.17
Basilica of Maxentius, or Basilica Nova, ‘New Basilica’
This building consisted of a 300-foot long central nave, four side aisles and a semicircular recess called an apse. roofed by gigantic stone vaults; constructed on brick-faced concrete of twenty feet thick walls.
Baths
Page 151 figure6.15
Spas included steam rooms, exercise rooms, art galleries, shops, cafes, reading rooms, and chambers of physical intimacy .
There were more than 900 baths in the city of Rome.
Palace & Church
• This palace was constructed by Constantine, to memorialize his imperial pity.
• In the Christian basilica the original meaning of the word basilica, "the hall of the king",
Works cited
• http://www.odysseyadventures.ca/index.htm
• http://www.odysseyadventures.ca/articles/greektemple/greek_temple.htm
• http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02325a.htm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_Maxentius_and_Constantine
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica
Monument of Roman
• Public work of art
• Utilitarianism
• For advertising Roman’s military achievement—triumphal arches & victory columns
• Examples : Trojan's Victory Column and Arch of Titus
Trajan's Victory Column
•Completed in 113C.E,and located in Trojan’s Forum
•Spiral bas-relief commemorates Trajan's victory
•frieze(橫飾帶 ) winds around
Arch of Titus• A structure in the sha
pe of a monumental archway
• To immortalize the emperor’s conquest of Jerusalem in 70 C.E.
Conclusion
• Roman Architecture is our connection with the most advanced civilization of its time. In Rome, ancient history ends and modern history begins; and all its story, both the old and the new, possesses a fascinating power, thus far unequalled in history; and that the fascination should ever be equaled by another nation seems now beyond imagining.
Works cited
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_architecture
• http://www.greatbuildings.com/types/styles/roman.html