Roman Imperial ArchitectureThe history of Roman Imperial architecture is one of the interaction of two dominant themes: in Rome itself the emergence of a new architecture based on the use of a revolutionary new material, Roman concrete; and in the provinces, the development of interrelated but distinctive Romano-provicial schools. The metropolitan school, exemplified in the Pantheon, the Imperial Baths, and the apartment houses of Ostia, constitutes Rome's great original contribution. The role of the provinces ranged from the preservation of a lively Hellenistic tradition to the assimilation of ideas from the east and from the military frontiers. It was--finally--Late Roman architecture that transmitted the heritage of Greece and Rome to the medieval world. |
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Contents
CONTENTS | 9 |
Architecture in Rome and Italy from Augustus to the Mid Third Century | 21 |
Architecture in Rome under the JulioClaudian Emperors A D 1468 | 45 |
Architecture in Rome from Vespasian to Trajan A D 69117 | 63 |
The Roman Architectural Revolution | 97 |
Architecture in Rome from Hadrian to Alexander Severus A D 117235 | 121 |
Ostia | 141 |
Italy under the Early Empire | 157 |
Greece | 255 |
Asia Minor | 273 |
The Contribution of Asia Minor to the Architecture of the Empire | 305 |
The North African Provinces | 363 |
Architecture in Rome from Maximin to Constantine A D 235337 | 415 |
The Architecture of the Tetrarchy in the Provinces | 441 |
List of Principal Abbreviations | 467 |
Select Glossary | 491 |
CONTENTS | 162 |
Domestic Architecture in Town and Country | 185 |
Gaul and the European Provinces | 213 |
List of Illustrations | 511 |
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aediculae agora already amphitheatre antiquity apse aqueduct arch architect Asia Minor Augustan Augustus Baalbek basilica bath-building Baths brick building built Campania capital Capitolium cella central centre century A.D. classical colonnaded street columnar columns concrete contemporary courtyard decorative detail Diocletian dome Domitian Early Imperial east elaborate emperor Empire enclosure entablature Ephesus example excavated exedrae façade facing feature feet flanked Flavian Fototeca dell'Unione Frigidarium Gaul Glanum Greek Hadrian hall hellenistic House Italy J. B. Ward-Perkins late later layout Lepcis Magna marble masonry materials mausoleum monumental mosaic North Ostia outer palace pediment peristyle Piazza pilasters podium Pompeii Porta portico prostyle provinces rebuilt rectangular Republican Restored view Roman architecture Rome roof sanctuary second century Severan side square stage-building stone storeys stucco surviving Syria Temple of Venus terraced theatre third century Timgad tombs town tradition Trajan triclinium vaulting villa walls