Download or read book Rome and Her Monuments written by Katherine A. Geffcken and published by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helen Nagy, "Miniature Votive Altars in the Collection of the American Academy in Rome"; Gareth Schmeling, "Urbs Aeterna: Rome, a Monument of the Mind"; Susan Martin, "Transportation Issues in the City of Rome"; Anne H. Groton, "Id est quod suspicabar: Suspecting the Worst in Plautus"; Helen F. North, "Lacrimae Virginis Vestalis"; Michael C. J. Putnam, "Horace c. 3.23: Ritual and Art"; Herbert W. Benario, "Three Tacitean Women"
Download or read book Rome in Her Monuments written by Pietro Stettiner and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of Monuments in Rome and Her Environs written by Charles Isidore Hemans and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rome In Her Monuments written by Pietro; J. Tolerton and E. Creeth Stettiner (translators) and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rome the Eternal City written by Clara Erskine Clement Waters and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rome in Her Monuments written by Pietro Stettiner and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Roman Arches written by Charles River Editors and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes a bibliography for further reading Some of the most iconic symbols of the Roman Empire that have survived into the modern world today are the arches that Romans erected to commemorate military victories and glorify individual emperors. The story of how arches came to be used throughout the Roman world in such a way is one that involves the evolution of the military and its leaders into the political forces that came to dominate the state, and those arches, along with the triumphs that came to be associated with many of them, were key parts in the process of exhibiting the might of both Rome. At the same time, they were meant to mark the individual achievements of Rome's rulers, making them an enormous and expensive PR exercise that steadily grew over the years. At its most basic, and in its earliest incarnation, the arch was a celebration of achievement and, as such, was part of a whole series of methods used by the Romans to record, reward, and publicize success. However, as the imperial period progressed, the arch came to symbolize much more and became exclusively associated with imperial might through the building of triumphal arches. The story of those arches is inextricably linked to the promotion of Rome as the greatest of all powers, and of its leaders as the most worthy and able of all commanders. Triumphal arches in Rome provided a centerpiece for triumphs that were restricted to the emperors and their immediate families after the establishment of the Roman Empire, but arches in the wider empire did not have this specific function. That said, as with those in Italy, foreign arches were strategically placed to ensure they were seen and passed through by the maximum number of people, subjecting them to scenes depicting Roman victories on a regular basis. These arches were inextricably linked to promoting Rome as the greatest of all powers, and also bound up in the policy of Romanization and assimilation of conquered territories and populations. Of course, these arches have intrigued historians for years. Franz Botho Graef, a German classical archaeologist and art historian, a prominent expert in the area, devoted his life to the identification and cataloguing of Roman arches. He documented 125 extant arches, and 30 further examples discerned from the literature or other sources, scattered throughout Rome and its provinces. Graef's listing is usually taken as the starting point for subsequent researchers, but another eminent historian in the field, A. Frothingham, has disputed Graef ́s listings, arguing that only 115 of the 125 identified arches actually existed. He also claimed to have identified 280 further "monuments and arches," the majority of which were located within Asia Minor, North Africa, and Syria. However, this methodological approach introduced a new category - monuments - into the cataloguing process, which has only served to complicate the debate. The building process of arches was long and protracted, but it typically served the empire well. Indeed, the success of this physical statement can perhaps be best measured by the number of similar arches erected around the world centuries after the end of the Roman Empire, including the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, the Narva Triumphal Arch in Saint Petersburg, the Wellington Arch in London, and the India Gate in Delhi. Arches and Triumphs in Ancient Rome: The History of the Roman Empire's Most Famous Military Celebrations and Monuments examines the events surrounding the celebrations, accounts of them, and how they influenced other architectural monuments. Along with pictures depicting important people, places, and events, you will learn about the arches and triumphs like never before.
Download or read book The Story Of Monuments In Rome And Her Environs written by Charles Isidore Hemans and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Architecture of the Roman Triumph written by Maggie L. Popkin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first critical study of the architecture of the Roman triumph, ancient Rome's most important victory ritual. Through case studies ranging from the republican to imperial periods, it demonstrates how powerfully monuments shaped how Romans performed, experienced, and remembered triumphs and, consequently, how Romans conceived of an urban identity for their city. Monuments highlighted Roman conquests of foreign peoples, enabled Romans to envision future triumphs, made triumphs more memorable through emotional arousal of spectators, and even generated distorted memories of triumphs that might never have occurred. This book illustrates the far-reaching impact of the architecture of the triumph on how Romans thought about this ritual and, ultimately, their own place within the Mediterranean world. In doing so, it offers a new model for historicizing the interrelations between monuments, individual and shared memory, and collective identities.
Download or read book The Monuments of Christian Rome From Constantine to the Renaissance written by Arthur L. Frothingham and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Monuments of Christian Rome, From Constantine to the Renaissance The complexity of Rome is at once an allurement and a source of despair. As a growing modern capital it turns its back upon its past, and as a historic museum it bristles with periods and styles so varied they cannot be set forth with the lucidity that makes the art of Athens comparatively easy to grasp. The present epitome of one group of these phases reflects the artistic life of Rome as a Christian city and the general features of its history and culture from the day when the Emperor Constantine stopped the era of persecution and raised the Christian Labarum as his standard, until that when the mediaeval Papacy, after a glorious history, was forced to abdicate its world-power and to leave Rome for Avignon, reducing the city to the lowest ebb of desolation. When Rome rises again under the Popes of the Renaissance, it will not be by its own efforts or with its peculiar traits unchanged. The new Rome will be a composite picture reflecting the handiwork of Tuscans, of Lombards and of Umbrians: a Rome at war with itself, tearing frantically at its own historic vitals and every day making a mock and travesty of its past. Rome of the Romans is no more. This old Rome from Constantine to the Renaissance is itself a varied pageant For nearly two centuries after his death it remained a decapitalized, unambitious Rome, pauperized by imperial bounty, drunk with corruption, hypnotized by vile plays, indifferent to apostles, occupied with a round of baths, games and gossip, clogged with a surfeit of villas, fine raiment and delicate eating, careless of the crumbling away of the ancient world about it under the blows of the barbarians. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Eternal City written by Clara Erskine Clement Waters and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the City of Rome Its Structures and Monuments written by Thomas Henry Dyer and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Roman Forum written by Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Topography and Monuments of Ancient Rome written by Samuel Ball Platner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-27 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Topography and Monuments of Ancient Rome While the actual excavations in Rome during the past six years have not been so important as those of the preceding live, the study of their results has been continuous and fruitful, so that it has seemed best to issue a revised edition of this manual which should be, so far as possible, brought down to date. It is especially unfortunate that the official reports of much of the work done in the Forum have not yet appeared, so that many essential facts are still unknown; and that the excavations on the Palatine have lagged so sadly. The partial excavations of 1906-1908, and some new investigations based on them that have recently been undertaken, may, when completed, revolutionize some of the accepted views about the history and topography of that hill. The most important contribution to the topography of Rome since 1904 has been the publication of the third part of the first volume of Jordan's Topographie der Stadt Rom, written by Professor Hülsen, to whom I wish to acknowledge again my deep obligations; the minor literature on the subject has increased so greatly that the references in this edition are considerably more numerous than in the first. This increase seems both justifiable and desirable, in spite of the fact that Professor Hülsen intends to issue a new edition of his Nomenclator Urbis Romae before long. Some of the categorical statements of the first edition have been modified, and errors corrected so far as discovered. In general, reference is made to views in conflict with those stated in the text. Besides the acknowledgments made in the preface to the first edition, I wish to express my indebtedness to Comm. G. T. Rivoira for information concerning the temple of Venus and Roma, and for the use of one of his own illustrations; to Dr. Esther B. Van Deman for many valuable suggestions and criticisms in general, and in particular for the material contained in her work on the Atrium Vestae; and to Herr Baedeker of Leipzig for permission to use his latest map of the Forum. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Christian Rome written by Eugène de La Gournerie and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The City of Rome Its Vicissitudes and Monuments From Its Foundation to the End of the Middle Ages written by Thomas H. Dyer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The City of Rome, Its Vicissitudes and Monuments From Its Foundation to the End of the Middle Ages: With Remarks on the Recent Excavations The design of the present work is to describe within a moderate compass the rise, progress, and decline of the city of Rome, the origin and story of its more famous monuments, and, without entering into their political causes, the vicissitudes of the city, either through domestic discord or the attacks of external enemies. Even during the Middle Ages, ancient Rome, or rather its remains, is principally kept in view. For it would have been impossible, within the prescribed limits, to give a description of the modern city, or what may be called Christian, in contradistinction to pagan, Rome. On this head only a few of the principal churches have been noticed, which, as they date their origin from the time of Constantine I., or shortly after, may be considered to belong as much to the ancient as to the modern city. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Eternal City written by Clara Erskine Clement Waters and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-09-20 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
