Transcript Rome Amphitheaters

Roman Architecture
Group 2
Chris Yu / Christine Hsu /
Monica Liu / Pearl Su / Wendy Liu
Introduction
 Chris
Introduction
• Basis on the classical stone
building of Greeks and Etruscans
• Reflects the practical needs--public works
• A combination of practicality and innovation
• Arches, Columns, Vaults,
Temples, Theaters,
Amphitheaters, Baths,
Basilicas
Vault & Aqueduct
 Pearl
Vault
A.B : Arch consisting of voussiors,
wedge-shaped
C: Barrel vault
E: Groined vault
Roman Aqueduct
• 11 major aqueducts
in ancient Rome
• The longest was 59
miles long(Anio
Novus)
• Flowing into huge
sisterns
• Providing water for
emperor, rich
citizens,public
fountain and baths
Pont du Gard
• One of Rome’s
most spectacular
large-scale
engineering project
• Part of a 25-milelong aqueduct that
brought fresh water
to the city of Nimes
in southern France
Pont du Gard
• Built without mortar
• Reflect the practical
function of arch
• the bottom row:
supporting a bridge
• the 2nd row:
undergirding the top
channel through which
water ran by gravity to
its destination
Works cited
Rome Amphitheaters
 Wendy
Rome Amphitheaters
• Circus Maximus
• Colosseum
The Colosseum
• Structure
beneath the floor:
complex of rooms and tunnels
Doric in the first story
Three-quarters engaged Doric columns,
lower arcade
Ionic in the second story
Ionic engaged columns, middle arcade
Corinthian in the third story
Corinthian columns, upper arcade
An attic story with Corinthian pilasters
and small square window openings in
alternate bays
Works cited
• http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/R
oman_Colosseum.html
• http://www.mariamilani.com/picscity/Rome
_Colosseum_4.htm
Pantheon
 Monica
Pantheon
The Pantheon
Floor Plan
The Pantheon Dome
Oculus, ”eye”
• 30-foot-wide
• Invites light and
air
Planetary Deities
The Proportions of the Pantheon
• eight
Corinthian
columns
• the classical
principles of
symmetry
and harmony
Works cited
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheon,_Ro
me
• http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/P
antheon.html
• http://www.monolithic.com/thedome/panth
eon/
• http://www.2020site.org/rome/romantempl
es.html
Basilica & Baths
 Christine
Basilica
Basilica is a rectangular colonnaded
hall that was built for the commonly
used in public assemblies.
Used as courts of law,
meeting halls, and
market places and some
for baths
page 151 figure 6.16
Basilica of Maxentius, or
Basilica Nova, ‘New Basilica’
page 152 figure 6.17
This building consisted of a 300-foot long central
nave, four side aisles and a semicircular recess
called an apse. roofed by gigantic stone vaults;
constructed on brick-faced concrete of twenty feet
thick walls.
Baths
Spas included steam
rooms, exercise rooms,
art galleries, shops,
cafes, reading rooms,
and chambers of
physical intimacy .
Page 151 figure6.15
There were more than
900 baths in the city of
Rome.
Palace & Church
• This palace was
constructed by
Constantine, to
memorialize his
imperial pity.
• In the Christian
basilica the original
meaning of the
word basilica, "the
hall of the king",
Egyptian hill & Rome basilica
Colonnades
page117 figure5.16
Works cited
• http://www.odysseyadventures.ca/index.ht
m
• http://www.odysseyadventures.ca/articles/
greektemple/greek_temple.htm
• http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02325a.
htm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_Ma
xentius_and_Constantine
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica
Monument
& Conclusion
 Chris
Monument of Roman
• Public work of art
• Utilitarianism
• For advertising Roman’s
military achievement—
triumphal arches &
victory columns
• Examples : Trojan's
Victory Column and
Arch of Titus
Trajan's Victory Column
•Completed in
113C.E,and located in
Trojan’s Forum
•Spiral bas-relief
commemorates Trajan's
victory
•frieze(橫飾帶) winds
around
Arch of Titus
• A structure in the
shape of a
monumental archway
• To immortalize the
emperor’s conquest
of Jerusalem in 70
C.E.
Conclusion
• Roman Architecture is our connection with
the most advanced civilization of its
time. In Rome, ancient history ends and
modern history begins; and all its story,
both the old and the new, possesses a
fascinating power, thus far unequalled in
history; and that the fascination should
ever be equaled by another nation seems
now beyond imagining.
Works cited
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_archite
cture
• http://www.greatbuildings.com/types/styles
/roman.html
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