Monumentality and the Roman Empire
Architecture in the Antonine Age
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 15 November 2007
- ISBN 9780199288632
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages408 pages
- Size 284x226x26 mm
- Weight 1250 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 200 figures, 6 maps 0
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Short description:
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 significance for the Romans themselves.
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The quality of 'monumentality' is attributed to the buildings of few historical epochs or cultures more frequently or consistently than to those of the Roman Empire. It is this quality that has helped to make them enduring models for builders of later periods. This extensively illustrated book, the first full-length study of the concept of monumentality in Classical Antiquity, asks what it is that the notion encompasses and how significant it was for the Romans themselves in moulding their individual or collective aspirations and identities. Although no single word existed in antiquity for the qualities that modern authors regard as making up that term, its Latin derivation - from monumentum, 'a monument' - attests plainly to the presence of the concept in the mentalities of ancient Romans, and the development of that notion through the Roman era laid the foundation for the classical ideal of monumentality, which reached a height in early modern Europe. This book is also the first full-length study of architecture in the Antonine Age - when it is generally agreed the Roman Empire was at its height. By exploring the public architecture of Roman Italy and both Western and Eastern provinces of the Roman Empire from the point of view of the benefactors who funded such buildings, the architects who designed them, and the public who used and experienced them, Edmund Thomas analyses the reasons why Roman builders sought to construct monumental buildings and uncovers the close link between architectural monumentality and the identity and ideology of the Roman Empire itself.
Seldom have I read a book containing on the one hand such a broad and extensive overview of Antonine architecture and, on the other, such an abundance of information about selected aspects of the topic ... However, the present book sets new standards for how Antonine architecture should be addressed ... such a well-written book deserves to be read by many scholars, students and interested readers in general.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
I. Monumental Form
Principles of monumental form in antiquity
The contribution of Antoninus Pius
The symbolic significance of monumental forms under the Antonines
Patrons and the monumentality of architecture
Creating form: architects in the Antonine age
Conclusion
II. Monuments of City and Empire
Buildings, politics, and the monumentality of Antonine cities
The cities and the emperor
Imperial architecture
Conclusion
III. Monuments and Memory
The monuments of the past
Building the monuments of the future
Conclusion
IV. Responses to Monuments
Experiencing and responding to public architecture
The architectural descriptions of Lucian of Samosata
Conclusion
Conclusion
