Monumentality and the Roman Empire : architecture in the Antonine age /
The quality of 'monumentality' commonly attributed to the buildings of the Roman Empire has helped to make them enduring models for builders of later periods. This extensively illustrated book is the first full-length study of the concept of monumentality in Classical Antiquity, and its si...
| Основен автор: | Thomas, Edmund |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=209673 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Monumentality and the Roman Empire. |
Съдържание:
- 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.