Monumentality and the Roman Empire : architecture in the Antonine age /

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"The quality of 'monumentality' is attributed to the buildings of few historical epochs or cultures more frequently or consistently than to those of the Roman Empire. It is this quality that has helped to make them enduring models for builders of later periods, for whom the idea of mo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thomas, Edmund (Edmund V.) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Temas:
Architecture, Roman.
Monuments > Rome.
Architecture romaine.
ARCHITECTURE > History > Prehistoric & Primitive.
Architecture, Roman
Monuments
Rome (Empire)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Monumental form
  • Principles of monumental form in antiquity
  • The contribution of Antoninus Pius
  • The symbolic significance of architectural form
  • Patrons and the monumentality of architecture
  • Creating form: architects in the Antonine age
  • Monuments of city and empire
  • Buildings, politics, and the monumentality of Antonine cities
  • The cities and the emperor
  • Imperial architecture
  • Monuments and memory
  • Preserving the monuments of the past
  • Building the monuments of the future
  • Responses to monuments
  • Experiencing and responding to architecture
  • The architectural descriptions of Lucian of Samosata
  • Maps
  • The Roman empire (western provinces)
  • The Roman empire (central and eastern provinces)
  • Roman Italy
  • The 'restoration of Italy' by Antoninus Pius
  • Roman Asia Minor
  • Roman Africa.

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