Roman Architecture test #2 ID's

Title: Round Temple

Location: Forum Boarium, Rome

Time: ca. 100 BCE

• Oldest surviving monument

• All marble

• Corinthian columns

• A wealthy individual/ military person has a victory and dictates a building
  

Title: Temple of Portunus

Location: Forum Boarium, Rome

Time: ca. 100 BCE

• Typical construction for the time

• Continuous freeze

  • Ionic columns

• Engaged columns

  • Attacked to the wall

  • Partial parastyle

Porticus Aemilia

• 193 BCE

  • restored in 174 BCE

• Didn’t survive well

• Assumed for years that this was a large warehouse

• found a fragment of the plan of the city of Rome there

  • An archeologist thinks its not called Aemillia but Navalia

    • this is now the more favored idea for what this building was

Tabularium

• 75 BCE

• Rome

• Tabula publicae

  • Where the public records were kept

  Builder, Quintus Lutatius Catulus

• The architect, Lucius Cornelius

• Groma and the decempeda

• Used to measure distances

  • Land mesurments

Cosa

• founded in 273 BCE

• Port town

  • for wine

• Theatre of Pompey

• 50 BCE

• Rome

• Main building Pompey built

• only some sections have been preserved

  • it’s underneath today’s city

• Build with it’s own foundation

  • not supported by the side of a hill which was normal for that time

• Theatre of Marcellus

• dedicated 13/11 BCE

• Rome

• It exemplifies the transition from wooden structures to permanent stone architecture in Roman entertainment venues.

• Corinthian order

• Made from limestone

  • not polished

• Forum of Caesar

• 46 BC

• Rome

• Caesar used his own money to build this

• It was the first addition to the Roman Forum since the establishment of the original Forum

• Key features

  • Temple of Venus Genetrix

• Temple of Divine Julius

• dedicated 29 BCE

• Rome

• was built in honor of Julius Caesar following his assassination in 44 BC

• Arch of Augustus

• dedicated in 29 BCE

• Rome

• Know the shape due to the coins from that time

• Located right next to the temple of divine Julius

  • Needs to show everyone that he really is related to Caesar and is justified in what he's doing

    • Gain trust of the people so he can be the leader

• Forum of Augustus

• 2 BCE

• Rome

• Creating a civic space similar to ceaser

• Used marble

• Zeus Amon - Zeus connected to Egypt

  • On wall between columns

• Horologium Augusti

• 10 BCE

• Rome

• Sun dial

  • functioned as a calendar

• Part of the Mausoleum of Augustus

1. Mausoleum of Augustus

2. Horologium Augusti

3. Ara Pacis Augustae

• Pont du Gard

• Near Mines

• 15 BCE

• Possibly most well preserved aqueducts

• Combines a bridge and an aqueduct

• Made of stone

• Has stones coming out of the arch

  • These were there so wood beams could rest on them while construction of the arch was happening

• Was 31 miles/ 50 km long

Grotto of Tiberius

• at Sperlonga

• early 1st century CE

• Tiberius's villa in the country

• Had entertainment area

  • Food, art, music, etc

• Statues of the great stories

  • Ex) The Odyssey scenes

Sebasteion Aphrodisias

• 42-45 CE

• Rome

• Three-story spaces around the entrance with sculptures on display

• Monumental entrance way

• Entrance to Venus

Porta Maggiore

• completed 52 CE

• Rome

• Two different aqueducts met here and the porta is what supported them

• Had rusticated masonry

  • Used regional limestone 

Domus Aurea

• 64-68 CE

• Rome

• Parts were covered in gold

• moving away from right angles

• Octagonal Room

  • artificial grotts

• floor rotates due to wheels that are typically found on ships

  • ball bearings

  • water also helped it move