Books by Pier Luigi Tucci
Introduction
Chapter 1. Tocco’s biography
1.1 Tocco’s archive and library
1.2 From Cagliari ... more Introduction
Chapter 1. Tocco’s biography
1.1 Tocco’s archive and library
1.2 From Cagliari to Rome
1.3 Tocco’s family
1.4 Epigraphy and Egyptology
1.5 Rome in the 1830s
Chapter 2. The unpublished work on the Greek and Roman navy
2.1 A visit to the Arsenal of Genoa
2.2 Tocco versus Augustine Jal
2.3 Reconstructing the original text
Chapter 3. The archaeology of Sardinia
3.1 In search for the Roman aqueduct of Cagliari (1835-46)
3.2 Tocco’s candidacy to ‘Commissario di Antichità’ (1849)
3.3 The scandal of the bronze statuettes (1852)
3.4 The new aqueducts for Cagliari and Sassari (1850s)
3.5 Projects for a suspension bridge (1854) and a dock (1860s) in Cagliari
Chapter 4. Lake Fucinus, Ancient Harbors, and Porsenna’s Tomb (1856)
4.1 ‘Ancient-modern analysis of Lake Fucinus and its emissary’
4.2 ‘Essay on the ancient harbors and especially on the harbors of Claudius at Ostia and of Trajan at Centocelle and about the Trajanic channel with other observations on the Tiber’
4.3 Labyrinths and Porsenna’s Tomb
Chapter 5. Rome
5.1 The Roman Forum (1858)
5.2 The mosaic floors in Via in Selci 54 (1860-1872)
5.3 The excavation in the hall of the Forma Urbis (July 29 - September 28, 1867)
5.4 Piazza della Consolazione (1868)
Chapter 6. Latium
6.1 Via Appia (1860s)
6.2 Via Nomentana (February 1866)
6.3 Mount Circeo (January 1867)
6.4 Via Aurelia: two excavations at Alsium (April-June 1867)
6.5 The ‘antica casa’ di Ariccia (July 1867)
6.6 Gabii (1868)
6.7 The Alban Hills: Bovillae, Marino, and Albano (1868)
6.8 A journey to Pratica di Mare and Capocotta (1869)
6.9 Ostia, Portus, and Maccarese
6.10 Anagni, Ferentino, and Tibur
Chapter 7. Antiquarian works, architectural studies, and unpublished drafts
7.1 Antiquarian works
7.2 Archaeological works
7.3 Architectural studies
7.4 Miscellaneous drafts
Chapter 8. Tocco versus Pietro Rosa
8.1 From the Papal States to the Kingdom of Italy
8.2 The first two pamphlets
8.3 The appointment as Consigliere Provinciale and the Basilica Julia
8.4 Rosa’s excavations and restorations
8.5 The annus furiosus: 1872
8.6 Still against Rosa
Chapter 9. Tocco’s collaboration with Augusto Castellani
9.1 The so-called bisellium and the tensa capitolina (1872-73)
9.2 The Model of a Roman farmhouse for the World Fair at Vienna (May 1873)
Conclusions
Chronology and Tocco’s Bibliography
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Captions
Index of names
Index of places
Book Chapters by Pier Luigi Tucci
in P. L. Tucci, Efisio Luigi Tocco. A 'Lover of Antiquities' in 19th-Century Rome, 2018
The complete archival records on Efisio Luigi Tocco's excavation in 1867 in the garden of the mon... more The complete archival records on Efisio Luigi Tocco's excavation in 1867 in the garden of the monastery of Saints Cosmas and Damian, corresponding to the hall of the Severan marble plan of Rome in the Temple of Peace.
The few reports published during the course of Tocco's excavation overlook many finds (e.g. countless slabs of white marble without incisions from the walls of the hall) and the broad cultural context.
Articles by Pier Luigi Tucci
Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2024
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2024/2024.10.29/
Revue des Études Anciennes, 2024
Review of Rome, archéologie et histoire urbaine. Trente ans après l’Urbs (1987). – C. Courrier, J... more Review of Rome, archéologie et histoire urbaine. Trente ans après l’Urbs (1987). – C. Courrier, J. P. Guilhembet, N. Laubry, D. Palombi éds. – Rome : École française de Rome, 2022. – 444 p. : bibliogr., index, ill. – (Collection de l’École française de Rome, ISSN : 0223.5099 ; 5). – ISBN: 978.2.7283.1539.0.
Archäologischen Anzeiger, 2023
Mit dem Herunterladen erkennen Sie die Nutzungsbedingungen von iDAI.publications an. Sofern in de... more Mit dem Herunterladen erkennen Sie die Nutzungsbedingungen von iDAI.publications an. Sofern in dem Dokument nichts anderes ausdrücklich vermerkt ist, gelten folgende Nutzungsbedingungen: Die Nutzung der Inhalte ist ausschließlich privaten Nutzerinnen / Nutzern für den eigenen wissenschaftlichen und sonstigen privaten Gebrauch gestattet. Sämtliche Texte, Bilder und sonstige Inhalte in diesem Dokument unterliegen dem Schutz des Urheberrechts gemäß dem Urheberrechtsgesetz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Die Inhalte können von Ihnen nur dann genutzt und vervielfältigt werden, wenn Ihnen dies im Einzelfall durch den Rechteinhaber oder die Schrankenregelungen des Urheberrechts gestattet ist. Jede Art der Nutzung zu gewerblichen Zwecken ist untersagt. Zu den Möglichkeiten einer Lizensierung von Nutzungsrechten wenden Sie sich bitte direkt an die verantwortlichen Herausgeber*innen der jeweiligen Publikationsorgane oder an die Online-Redaktion des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
COSTRUIRE LA NUOVA ITALIA. MITI DI ROMA E FASCISMO, pp. 19-45 , 2023
The ancient Roman arches, with their inscriptions and decorations of funerary, heroic, and triump... more The ancient Roman arches, with their inscriptions and decorations of funerary, heroic, and triumphal nature, were meant to last forever – indeed, the arches of Titus, Septimius Severus and Constantine are still standing in Rome. On the contrary, most late Fascist arches were ephemeral and left no traces at all, since their purpose was to impress the minds of the viewers during the course of specific ceremonies and events in order to create an everlasting memory. The Fascist ephemera did not rely on sophisticated iconological programs and could be immediately understood by the uneducated crowds. The trajectory of the Roman arch may be exemplified by the plaster casts on display at the Mostra Augustea della Romanità in 1937-38: the ancient monumental arch belonged definitively to the past, while Fascist artists and architects increasingly revisited its design and materiality as in the façade of the Augustan exhibition itself. If the early Fascist arches were traditional, the later ones were innovative monuments that transcended the ancient archetype and looked at the future, in accordance with the revolutionary spirit of Fascism.
Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica Comunale di Roma 124, 2023
The re-examination of the Tabula Tifernatis Tiberina in 2010 and the discovery of fragment 31 ll ... more The re-examination of the Tabula Tifernatis Tiberina in 2010 and the discovery of fragment 31 ll of the Severan Forma Urbis in 2000 clarified the text of the senatusconsultum of AD 19 dealing with the postumous honours for Germanicus and shed new light on the the eastern sector of the Circus Flaminius, respectively. These documents, however, have not been put into relationship to date and, even when examined independently, their importance has not been fully understood. The author argues that the honorary arch decreed to Germanicus in the Circus Flaminius was flanked by another monument – aditus – that might be depicted on the new fragment of the marble plan, and questions whether their sculptural decoration was arranged differently from current reconstructions. The possible existence of another honorary arch next to the Tiber, which had been dismissed by an inaccurate overlay of fragment 31 ll on the modern topography, requires a re-consideration of the arch dedicated to Drusus the Younger after his death in AD 23 and of its relationship with the arch of Germanicus that is currently identified with the one depicted on fragment 31 u next to the Porticus of Octavia
Keywords: Domitian, Templum Pacis, obelisk, Egypt, Nile, granite, porphyry, basanite
Mélanges de l’École française de Rome – Antiquité (MEFRA), 134/2 (2022), pp. 387-415, 2022
Open access: https://journals.openedition.org/mefra/13777
(published on the 6th of February 2023)
Histara les comptes rendus (ISSN 2100-0700), 2022
P. Fleury, S. Madeleine (eds), Topographie et Urbanisme de la Rome antique (Caen 2022) (Proceedings of the International Conference, Université de Caen Normandie, 11-13 décembre 2019), 2022
Il catalogo della mostra La Biblioteca Infinita (2014) ha proposto una nuova ricostruzione dell'a... more Il catalogo della mostra La Biblioteca Infinita (2014) ha proposto una nuova ricostruzione dell'aula assiale del Tempio della Pace. Accantonando il pronao largo quasi quanto la cella ricostruito da Colini e Gismondi a partire dal 1937, gli autori dei recenti scavi hanno pubblicato due versioni di una nuova planimetria che conferma la presenza di un pronao esastilo, ma con sei colonne molto più vicine rispetto alla ricostruzione precedente. Dunque il pronao si restringerebbe, dando vita a un nuovo esempio di tempio con cella trasversale. Purtroppo si tratta di una ricostruzione da escludere perché contraria ai principi dell'architettura romana: il giunto tra il "nuovo" pronao ed il portico laterale è semplicemente impossibile. In realtà il tempio era ottastilo e aveva la stessa larghezza, dal pronao fino al lato di fondo: la presunta cella più alta e più larga del pronao non ha ragione di esistere, come attestato da diversi dettagli finora ignorati. Nel primo dei quattro punti della mia presentazione ho analizzato la planimetria del Tempio della Pace incisa sulla Forma Urbis e ho messo a confronto la nuova ricostruzione ufficiale con la mia restituzione dell'edificio. Nel secondo punto ho discusso la trasmissione del modello dell'edificio di Vespasiano nelle province occidentali: alcuni santuari, già identificati come "copie" del Tempio della Pace, avevano un'aula assiale compatibile con la mia ricostruzione. Infine - terzo e quarto punto - ho mostrato che il progetto del Tempio della Pace deriva da un sapiente uso della geometria e dell'aritmetica, cioè di figure e numeri, che non si riscontra nella ricostruzione ufficiale. Negli atti del convegno includerò ulteriori osservazioni sull'attico, sulla conformazione dell'aula absidata verso la Via Sacra e sull'impatto del Colosso di Nerone restaurato da Vespasiano.
American Journal of Archaeology, 2022
Römische Mitteilungen (Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Römische Abteilung) 127, 2021
A new reconstruction of the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus
https://publications.dainst.org/jo... more A new reconstruction of the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus
https://publications.dainst.org/journals/rm/issue/view/484
NB - From the present issue onward, the Römische Mitteilungen will be published online and as an Open Access resource at the same time as the printed edition. All articles can be accessed online and are available for download free of charge from the moment of publication.
Oxford Bibliographies in Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. Ed. Kevin Murphy, 2021
A review of about 150 works on the architecture of ancient Rome
General Overviews: Reference W... more A review of about 150 works on the architecture of ancient Rome
General Overviews: Reference Works; Journals; Online Databases - Resources - Websites; Archaeological Guides; Companions and Handbooks; Collections of Papers / Rome's Origins: The Archaic Period / Republican Rome / Imperial Rome / Late Antiquity & Christian Rome / Forma Urbis / Urban Studies / Building Materials and Techniques / Vitruvius and Rome / Architects, Design, Construction Process, and Restoration / New Approaches to Rome's Architecture / Documentation, Visualization, Digital / Architecture and Sculpture / Marble and Color / City Walls / Temples / Buildings for Spectacles / Imperial Baths / Triumphal and Honorary Arches / Bridges / Houses / Funerary Monuments / Aqueducts / Roman Forum / Imperial Forums and Nearby Buildings / Palatine Hill / Capitoline Hill / Campus Martius / Major Monuments
https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/
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Journal of Roman Archaeology , 2021
Review of P. J. E. Davies, Architecture and Politics in Republican Rome (New York: Cambridge Univ... more Review of P. J. E. Davies, Architecture and Politics in Republican Rome (New York: Cambridge University Press 2017). Pp. xii 366. ISBN 978-1-107-09431-4.
Papers of the British School at Rome, vol. 88, 2020
In PBSR 88 (2020)
Ephemeral architecture was the antithesis of the permanent buildings typical o... more In PBSR 88 (2020)
Ephemeral architecture was the antithesis of the permanent buildings typical of the 'Fascism of stone', and yet many architects took advantage of this paradox to create an imaginary Rome. A widespread use of ephemeral structures was made around 1938, during the Mostra Augustea della Romanità and Hitler's state visit to Italy, in order to support a political programme that marked the totalitarian turn in the Fascist regime after the foundation of the empire and aimed at strengthening the alliance between Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. Relying on methodologies of particular relevance to Roman art history and on various sources unknown to date, this paper investigates the relationships between ephemeral architecture and romanità. The case study is a monumental tribune built in via dei Trionfi that inevitably suffered a damnatio memoriae: a combination of classicizing and futuristic decorations, it looked back at ancient Rome and, at the same time, highlighted the Fascist regime's aspirations for might and modernity.
Papers of the British School at Rome 87 (2019)
This article investigates an aristocratic domus located on the Arx, overlooking the well-known in... more This article investigates an aristocratic domus located on the Arx, overlooking the well-known insula of the Aracoeli from the northern summit of the Capitoline hill. This domus was buried during the construction of the basilica of Santa Maria in Aracoeli in the 13th century and remained sealed until the 1980s. I have reconstructed its layout - at least three levels survive - relying on my architectural survey and on the Vittoriano archives. The original phase dates from the 1st
century BC but substantial restorations were made during the Flavian age, when the domus lost its fauces-atrium-tablinum pattern, and in the early 3rd century AD, when it was expanded vertically by a deep cut into the tuff bank, received a new façade, and was redecorated with frescoes in red-green linear style. The domus of the Aracoeli must have been a residence of high level and, not by chance, in the Severan age it was supplied by lead pipes bearing imperial stamps; other fistulae allow the identification of earlier owners before its incorporation into the imperial domain. Although the Capitoline hill was mostly occupied by public buildings, apparently the Arx was a prestigious neighborhood and not a sort of monumental acropolis. I discuss the development and the architectural design of the
domus of the Aracoeli, including its underground residential spaces as well as its sculptural and painted decoration; finally, I examine the remodellings of the original atrium house from a socio-cultural point of view.
Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2018
The debate on the relationships between Rome, Italy, and the Mediterranean world in the Archaic a... more The debate on the relationships between Rome, Italy, and the Mediterranean world in the Archaic and mid-Republican periods remains very lively. Complementing the most recent discoveries and interpretations, I present two unknown mid-Republican documents from the Arx, the N summit of the Capitoline hill. Excavations for the Monument to Victor Emmanuel II brought to light after 1887 many walls and artifacts, which have been studied almost exclusively to produce archaeological maps or catalogues of objects. The structures sealed beneath the basilica of Santa Maria in Aracoeli toward the end of the 13th c., rediscovered in the 1980s and surveyed by the present author since 2001, shed new light on a number of religious, historical, topographical, architectural and art-historical issues.
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Books by Pier Luigi Tucci
Chapter 1. Tocco’s biography
1.1 Tocco’s archive and library
1.2 From Cagliari to Rome
1.3 Tocco’s family
1.4 Epigraphy and Egyptology
1.5 Rome in the 1830s
Chapter 2. The unpublished work on the Greek and Roman navy
2.1 A visit to the Arsenal of Genoa
2.2 Tocco versus Augustine Jal
2.3 Reconstructing the original text
Chapter 3. The archaeology of Sardinia
3.1 In search for the Roman aqueduct of Cagliari (1835-46)
3.2 Tocco’s candidacy to ‘Commissario di Antichità’ (1849)
3.3 The scandal of the bronze statuettes (1852)
3.4 The new aqueducts for Cagliari and Sassari (1850s)
3.5 Projects for a suspension bridge (1854) and a dock (1860s) in Cagliari
Chapter 4. Lake Fucinus, Ancient Harbors, and Porsenna’s Tomb (1856)
4.1 ‘Ancient-modern analysis of Lake Fucinus and its emissary’
4.2 ‘Essay on the ancient harbors and especially on the harbors of Claudius at Ostia and of Trajan at Centocelle and about the Trajanic channel with other observations on the Tiber’
4.3 Labyrinths and Porsenna’s Tomb
Chapter 5. Rome
5.1 The Roman Forum (1858)
5.2 The mosaic floors in Via in Selci 54 (1860-1872)
5.3 The excavation in the hall of the Forma Urbis (July 29 - September 28, 1867)
5.4 Piazza della Consolazione (1868)
Chapter 6. Latium
6.1 Via Appia (1860s)
6.2 Via Nomentana (February 1866)
6.3 Mount Circeo (January 1867)
6.4 Via Aurelia: two excavations at Alsium (April-June 1867)
6.5 The ‘antica casa’ di Ariccia (July 1867)
6.6 Gabii (1868)
6.7 The Alban Hills: Bovillae, Marino, and Albano (1868)
6.8 A journey to Pratica di Mare and Capocotta (1869)
6.9 Ostia, Portus, and Maccarese
6.10 Anagni, Ferentino, and Tibur
Chapter 7. Antiquarian works, architectural studies, and unpublished drafts
7.1 Antiquarian works
7.2 Archaeological works
7.3 Architectural studies
7.4 Miscellaneous drafts
Chapter 8. Tocco versus Pietro Rosa
8.1 From the Papal States to the Kingdom of Italy
8.2 The first two pamphlets
8.3 The appointment as Consigliere Provinciale and the Basilica Julia
8.4 Rosa’s excavations and restorations
8.5 The annus furiosus: 1872
8.6 Still against Rosa
Chapter 9. Tocco’s collaboration with Augusto Castellani
9.1 The so-called bisellium and the tensa capitolina (1872-73)
9.2 The Model of a Roman farmhouse for the World Fair at Vienna (May 1873)
Conclusions
Chronology and Tocco’s Bibliography
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Captions
Index of names
Index of places
Book Chapters by Pier Luigi Tucci
The few reports published during the course of Tocco's excavation overlook many finds (e.g. countless slabs of white marble without incisions from the walls of the hall) and the broad cultural context.
Articles by Pier Luigi Tucci
Full text: http://histara.sorbonne.fr/cr.php?cr=4309
Publié en ligne le 2022-07-28
The Cult of Castor and Pollux in Ancient Rome:
Myth, Ritual, and Society
By Amber Gartrell.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2021. Pp. 268. $99.
ISBN 9781108477550 (cloth).
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/aja/0/0
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.1086/720935
https://publications.dainst.org/journals/rm/issue/view/484
NB - From the present issue onward, the Römische Mitteilungen will be published online and as an Open Access resource at the same time as the printed edition. All articles can be accessed online and are available for download free of charge from the moment of publication.
General Overviews: Reference Works; Journals; Online Databases - Resources - Websites; Archaeological Guides; Companions and Handbooks; Collections of Papers / Rome's Origins: The Archaic Period / Republican Rome / Imperial Rome / Late Antiquity & Christian Rome / Forma Urbis / Urban Studies / Building Materials and Techniques / Vitruvius and Rome / Architects, Design, Construction Process, and Restoration / New Approaches to Rome's Architecture / Documentation, Visualization, Digital / Architecture and Sculpture / Marble and Color / City Walls / Temples / Buildings for Spectacles / Imperial Baths / Triumphal and Honorary Arches / Bridges / Houses / Funerary Monuments / Aqueducts / Roman Forum / Imperial Forums and Nearby Buildings / Palatine Hill / Capitoline Hill / Campus Martius / Major Monuments
https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/
Oxford University Press
198 Madison Avenue
New York, NY USA
Ephemeral architecture was the antithesis of the permanent buildings typical of the 'Fascism of stone', and yet many architects took advantage of this paradox to create an imaginary Rome. A widespread use of ephemeral structures was made around 1938, during the Mostra Augustea della Romanità and Hitler's state visit to Italy, in order to support a political programme that marked the totalitarian turn in the Fascist regime after the foundation of the empire and aimed at strengthening the alliance between Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. Relying on methodologies of particular relevance to Roman art history and on various sources unknown to date, this paper investigates the relationships between ephemeral architecture and romanità. The case study is a monumental tribune built in via dei Trionfi that inevitably suffered a damnatio memoriae: a combination of classicizing and futuristic decorations, it looked back at ancient Rome and, at the same time, highlighted the Fascist regime's aspirations for might and modernity.
century BC but substantial restorations were made during the Flavian age, when the domus lost its fauces-atrium-tablinum pattern, and in the early 3rd century AD, when it was expanded vertically by a deep cut into the tuff bank, received a new façade, and was redecorated with frescoes in red-green linear style. The domus of the Aracoeli must have been a residence of high level and, not by chance, in the Severan age it was supplied by lead pipes bearing imperial stamps; other fistulae allow the identification of earlier owners before its incorporation into the imperial domain. Although the Capitoline hill was mostly occupied by public buildings, apparently the Arx was a prestigious neighborhood and not a sort of monumental acropolis. I discuss the development and the architectural design of the
domus of the Aracoeli, including its underground residential spaces as well as its sculptural and painted decoration; finally, I examine the remodellings of the original atrium house from a socio-cultural point of view.
Chapter 1. Tocco’s biography
1.1 Tocco’s archive and library
1.2 From Cagliari to Rome
1.3 Tocco’s family
1.4 Epigraphy and Egyptology
1.5 Rome in the 1830s
Chapter 2. The unpublished work on the Greek and Roman navy
2.1 A visit to the Arsenal of Genoa
2.2 Tocco versus Augustine Jal
2.3 Reconstructing the original text
Chapter 3. The archaeology of Sardinia
3.1 In search for the Roman aqueduct of Cagliari (1835-46)
3.2 Tocco’s candidacy to ‘Commissario di Antichità’ (1849)
3.3 The scandal of the bronze statuettes (1852)
3.4 The new aqueducts for Cagliari and Sassari (1850s)
3.5 Projects for a suspension bridge (1854) and a dock (1860s) in Cagliari
Chapter 4. Lake Fucinus, Ancient Harbors, and Porsenna’s Tomb (1856)
4.1 ‘Ancient-modern analysis of Lake Fucinus and its emissary’
4.2 ‘Essay on the ancient harbors and especially on the harbors of Claudius at Ostia and of Trajan at Centocelle and about the Trajanic channel with other observations on the Tiber’
4.3 Labyrinths and Porsenna’s Tomb
Chapter 5. Rome
5.1 The Roman Forum (1858)
5.2 The mosaic floors in Via in Selci 54 (1860-1872)
5.3 The excavation in the hall of the Forma Urbis (July 29 - September 28, 1867)
5.4 Piazza della Consolazione (1868)
Chapter 6. Latium
6.1 Via Appia (1860s)
6.2 Via Nomentana (February 1866)
6.3 Mount Circeo (January 1867)
6.4 Via Aurelia: two excavations at Alsium (April-June 1867)
6.5 The ‘antica casa’ di Ariccia (July 1867)
6.6 Gabii (1868)
6.7 The Alban Hills: Bovillae, Marino, and Albano (1868)
6.8 A journey to Pratica di Mare and Capocotta (1869)
6.9 Ostia, Portus, and Maccarese
6.10 Anagni, Ferentino, and Tibur
Chapter 7. Antiquarian works, architectural studies, and unpublished drafts
7.1 Antiquarian works
7.2 Archaeological works
7.3 Architectural studies
7.4 Miscellaneous drafts
Chapter 8. Tocco versus Pietro Rosa
8.1 From the Papal States to the Kingdom of Italy
8.2 The first two pamphlets
8.3 The appointment as Consigliere Provinciale and the Basilica Julia
8.4 Rosa’s excavations and restorations
8.5 The annus furiosus: 1872
8.6 Still against Rosa
Chapter 9. Tocco’s collaboration with Augusto Castellani
9.1 The so-called bisellium and the tensa capitolina (1872-73)
9.2 The Model of a Roman farmhouse for the World Fair at Vienna (May 1873)
Conclusions
Chronology and Tocco’s Bibliography
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Captions
Index of names
Index of places
The few reports published during the course of Tocco's excavation overlook many finds (e.g. countless slabs of white marble without incisions from the walls of the hall) and the broad cultural context.
Full text: http://histara.sorbonne.fr/cr.php?cr=4309
Publié en ligne le 2022-07-28
The Cult of Castor and Pollux in Ancient Rome:
Myth, Ritual, and Society
By Amber Gartrell.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2021. Pp. 268. $99.
ISBN 9781108477550 (cloth).
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/aja/0/0
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.1086/720935
https://publications.dainst.org/journals/rm/issue/view/484
NB - From the present issue onward, the Römische Mitteilungen will be published online and as an Open Access resource at the same time as the printed edition. All articles can be accessed online and are available for download free of charge from the moment of publication.
General Overviews: Reference Works; Journals; Online Databases - Resources - Websites; Archaeological Guides; Companions and Handbooks; Collections of Papers / Rome's Origins: The Archaic Period / Republican Rome / Imperial Rome / Late Antiquity & Christian Rome / Forma Urbis / Urban Studies / Building Materials and Techniques / Vitruvius and Rome / Architects, Design, Construction Process, and Restoration / New Approaches to Rome's Architecture / Documentation, Visualization, Digital / Architecture and Sculpture / Marble and Color / City Walls / Temples / Buildings for Spectacles / Imperial Baths / Triumphal and Honorary Arches / Bridges / Houses / Funerary Monuments / Aqueducts / Roman Forum / Imperial Forums and Nearby Buildings / Palatine Hill / Capitoline Hill / Campus Martius / Major Monuments
https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/
Oxford University Press
198 Madison Avenue
New York, NY USA
Ephemeral architecture was the antithesis of the permanent buildings typical of the 'Fascism of stone', and yet many architects took advantage of this paradox to create an imaginary Rome. A widespread use of ephemeral structures was made around 1938, during the Mostra Augustea della Romanità and Hitler's state visit to Italy, in order to support a political programme that marked the totalitarian turn in the Fascist regime after the foundation of the empire and aimed at strengthening the alliance between Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. Relying on methodologies of particular relevance to Roman art history and on various sources unknown to date, this paper investigates the relationships between ephemeral architecture and romanità. The case study is a monumental tribune built in via dei Trionfi that inevitably suffered a damnatio memoriae: a combination of classicizing and futuristic decorations, it looked back at ancient Rome and, at the same time, highlighted the Fascist regime's aspirations for might and modernity.
century BC but substantial restorations were made during the Flavian age, when the domus lost its fauces-atrium-tablinum pattern, and in the early 3rd century AD, when it was expanded vertically by a deep cut into the tuff bank, received a new façade, and was redecorated with frescoes in red-green linear style. The domus of the Aracoeli must have been a residence of high level and, not by chance, in the Severan age it was supplied by lead pipes bearing imperial stamps; other fistulae allow the identification of earlier owners before its incorporation into the imperial domain. Although the Capitoline hill was mostly occupied by public buildings, apparently the Arx was a prestigious neighborhood and not a sort of monumental acropolis. I discuss the development and the architectural design of the
domus of the Aracoeli, including its underground residential spaces as well as its sculptural and painted decoration; finally, I examine the remodellings of the original atrium house from a socio-cultural point of view.
locate the group 277a-b, a slab corner depicting the slopes of a hill. Considering the areas of the
city that appeared in the corners of the 150 slabs of the marble plan as well as the necessary
modification of the slab edges in the area of the Roman Forum, and taking into account several
technical elements, fragments 277a-b must be located in the top right corner of a vertical slab
depicting the Capitoline hill. In particular, the two fragments show the substructures of the Arx
facing the Clivus Argentarius, the Gemonian Stairs, and the northern half of the cella of the
temple of Concordia Augusta. A previously unknown monument is visible on the hill, inside
an area oriented at the points of the compass. The information provided by the Forma Urbis
is presented after an assessment of the surviving archaeological evidence and a detailed review
of recent scholarship on the area of the so-called Tabularium.
19-21 gennaio 2022
- Scuola Normale Superiore
- Laboratorio di Storia Archeologia Epigrafia Tradizione dell'Antico
- Newcastle University
Université de Caen Normandie
Colloque international du 11 au 13 décembre 2019
«Topographie et urbanisme de la Rome antique»
PS - Please, disregard my affiliation to JHU.
Convegno di studi – Feltre, 3-4 novembre 2017
The Templum Pacis, a monumental building dedicated by Vespasian in AD 75 near the Forum of Augustus, was remodeled under Domitian and eventually restored by Septimius Severus after the fire of AD 192. Taking into consideration the archaeological evidence, my survey sheds new light on the architecture and function of this complex, as opposed to the reconstruction presented in the exhibition ‘La Biblioteca Infinita’, on view at the Colosseum until October 2014. In particular, I will focus on the library of the Templum Pacis and explain why it should be identified with the great hall towards the Via Sacra that before my survey was wrongly regarded as a Severan addition. I will highlight the architectural similarities between the library of Peace and the library of Apollo on the Palatine hill, and reconsider the information on books and libraries provided by Galen in his treatise On the avoidance of grief.
Reconstruction of the Templum Pacis, with comments on the exhibition 'La Biblioteca Infinita' at the Colosseum (Rome, March-October 2014).
PS - Not mentioned in the catalog:
1) https://www.academia.edu/2013333/New_fragments_of_ancient_plans_of_Rome
2) https://www.academia.edu/1542016/Red-Painted_Stones_in_Roman_Architecture"
3) Galen (cf. page 276; with few exceptions, the authors are unaware of Galen's newly-rediscovered Peri Alupias)"
'Sono venuti cosi' formandosi monopoli e oligopoli su gruppi di monumenti da parte di determinate istituzioni o meglio di individui all'interno di esse, che impediscono molte volte a studiosi italiani e stranieri di dispiegare la ricerca, con danno per gli studi. E se qualche outsider rispetto a quei poteri riesce, cio' nonostante, a elaborare una propria proposta, diversa o non coincidente con quella ufficialmente accreditata, essa viene maltrattata in base a un malcelato principio di lesa maestà, evidente segnale della nostra arretratezza, e magari poi riconosciuta senza neppure ricordarla'
(A. Carandini, Atlante di Roma Antica (Milan 2012) vol. 1, p. 39)
Here you can read two old drafts. Please, read the FINAL VERSION of my response
at https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2018/2018.12.39/