Monumentality in Etruscan and early Roman architecture : ideology and innovation /

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"Experts explore what factors drove the emergence of scale as a defining element in ancient Italian architecture, and how these factors influenced the origins and development of Etruscan and early Roman monumental designs."--Project Muse

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Meyers, Gretchen E., 1970- (Author, Editor), Edlund-Berry, Ingrid E. M. (Author, honouree.)
Other Authors: Thomas, Michael L., 1966- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Architecture, Etruscan.
Architecture, Roman > Italy, Central.
Architecture étrusque.
Architecture romaine > Italie (Centre)
ARCHITECTURE > History > Prehistoric & Primitive.
Architecture, Roman.
Italy > Italy, Central.
Festschriften.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the experience of monumentality in Etruscan and early Roman architecture / Gretchen E. Meyers
  • Straw to stone, huts to houses: transitions in building practices and society in protohistoric Latium / Elizabeth Colantoni
  • The performance of death: monumentality, burial practice, and community identity in central Italy's urbanizing period / Anthony Tuck
  • Monumentalization of the Etruscan round moulding in sixth-century BCE central Italy / Nancy A. Winter
  • Monumental embodiment: somatic symbolism and the Tuscan temple / P. Gregory Warden
  • The Capitoline temple and the effects of monumentality on Roman temple design / John N. Hopkins
  • On the introduction of stone entablatures in republican temples in Rome / Penelope J.E. Davies
  • Afterword. Reflections / Ingrid E.M. Edlund-Berry.

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