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Timgad (Algeria) founded 100 CE |
-military colony in Algeria -built along intersection of two roads, illustrates Roman urban planning at its finest -Arch of Trajan - gate to the city, situated in center, marker of the city |
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Pont du Gard near Nimes, France late first century BCE |
-ancient Roman aqueduct -highest of all elevated Roman aqueducts -possibly used to carry water until the 6th century -most notable surviving aqueduct, showed Roman ingenuity |
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Nimes Maison Carrée ca. 1-10 CE |
-best preserved Roman temple front in the former Roman Empire -small and windowless interior shrine |
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Palestrina Temple of Fortune c. 80 BCE |
-Palestrina is an ancient city -five vast terraces connected by grand staircases -prelude to Imperial style of following generation |
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Rome: Forum Romanum renovated first century BCE and Imperial Forum first century BCE to second century CE |
-situated at the base of the Capitoline Hill in drained area -center of civic life in ancient Rome -since first century, new colonnaded fora were added adjacent to Forum Romanum, making up the Imperial Fora -imperial fora include that of Caesar, Augustine and, largest, Trajan |
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Pompeii Forum before eruption of Vesuvius, 79 CE |
-focus of public life -rectangular form surrounded by two-story colonnade on three sides and the fourth side occupied by the Capitolium -triumphal arch marked north entrance |
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Rome Domus Aurea begun 64 CE |
-large landscaped portico villa built by Nero |
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Rome Colosseum 72-80 CE |
-oval plan, structure modeled after the Theater of Marcellus -510 x 615 feet -combination of cut stone and concrete resting on carefully laid foundations |
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Rome Markets of Trajan ca. 100-110 CE |
-part of Trajan's forum -built for need of commercial space adjacent to forum -multistory semi-circle -contained over 150 shops, offices and a groin-vaulted market hall |
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Rome Baths of Diocletian 298-306 CE transformed into S Maria degli Angeli Michelangelo after 1560 |
-largest urban Roman baths -covered about 50 acres of land, capacity of about 3000 -symmetrical plan, principle sequence of rooms placed along central axis |
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Tivoli Hadrian's Villa 118-134 CE |
-geometrically controlled building groups sited to follow typography -variety of interior volumes and exterior vistas that make this a treasury of of sequential spatial experiences |
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Piazza d'Oro Compare to Rome, Pantheon 117-136 CE |
-part of Hadrian's Villa |
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Piazza Armerina Sicily Imperial (?) Villa 315-325 CE |
-comune (basically a township) -best preserved example of Roman mosaics at Villa Romana del Casale |
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Split, Croatia Palace of Diocletian 300-305 |
-retirement palace of Diocletian -rectangular plan, towers on W, N and E facades, made of limestone -Southern half contained emperor's apartments and religious buildings, Peristyle gave northern access to Mausoleum and temples -ideal diagram, shows a city is a big house |
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Rome St John Lateran begun 313 |
-basilica form, apse, based off of Roman Forum -oldest church in the west |
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Rome Old St Peter's begun 333 |
-traditional basilica form -trying to encompass St Peter's grave influenced layout greatly, catacombs -five aisles, a wide central nave, marble columns, built in shape of Latin cross, and 100 ft tall gabled roof -built to actually accommodate worshipper, unlike Roman temples -side aisles so pilgrims could move through without interrupting mass |
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Ravenna Orthodox Baptistery 400-450 |
-domed octagonal volume (Resurrection) -depicts Christ's baptism on ceiling -lightweight terra cotta tubing comprise dome, supported by columns |
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Ravenna S. Vitale completed 546-548 |
-Early Christian Byzantine architecture -not of architectural Basilica form -ambiguity similar to Hagia Sophia -octogonal plan -famous for collection of Byzantine mosaics |
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Constantinople Hagia Sophia Anthemius and Isidorus 532-537 |
-Masterpiece of Byzantine Architecture -central dome supported on pendentives, flanked by two semi-domes of same diameter -colonnaded atrium and double narthex proceed church proper -effect of arches, vaults and domes is ethereal |
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Venice S. Marco 1042-1085 |
-Greek-cross plan, domed on each arm, central dome covers crossing -domes held by pendentives extending into barrel vaults -reflects other architectural principles as well, but mostly Byzantine |
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Aachen Palatine Chapel and Palace Odo of Metz 792-805 |
-revival of masonry construction -built with stone salvaged from nearby Roman structures -addition of westwerk, one of the Carolingian contributions to Western architecture |
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Lorsch Monastery Gatehouse 800 |
-all that remains of monastery -architectural precedents found in Roman triumphal arches |
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Speyer Cathedral 1035-1065 and 1082-1182 |
-for Roman Catholic Bishop -made of red sandstone from forest -largest Romanesque Church |
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S. Gall Plan for a Monastery c 820 |
-Benedictine Monastery -complete (self-sufficient) monastery -one of earliest plan drawings |
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ClunySecond church (abbey) 1088-1130 |
-compare to Paray-le-Monial, Cluniac Abbey c 1100 |
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Fontenay Cistercian Monastery 1139-1147 |
-compare to Fossanova, Cistercian Monastery, 1179-1208 |
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Vezelay Sainte-Madeleine c 1118 |
-sculptural work on the capitals of the columns -nave vault divided into bays |
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Pisa Cathedral Baptistery and Bell Tower 1063-1150 |
-cruciform basilica -double aisles and galleries flanking the nave -single aisles and galleries flanking the transepts |
