Christopher Siwicki
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- November 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780198848578
- eISBN:
- 9780191883026
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198848578.003.0004
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, European History: BCE to 500CE
This chapter examines the Casa Romuli, the thatched hut associated with the city’s founder Romulus and held up as an exemplum of Rome’s origins. Contrary to other examples discussed in the book, this ...
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This chapter examines the Casa Romuli, the thatched hut associated with the city’s founder Romulus and held up as an exemplum of Rome’s origins. Contrary to other examples discussed in the book, this structure consistently retained its original form and the same type of materials when rebuilt. However, in this instance, too, the case is made that the architectural continuity was not motivated by an overt attempt to preserve the historic appearance of the building, but was instead a consequence of other influences. By drawing a comparison with the maintenance of the Pons Sublicius, a new interpretation of the hut is proposed and the relevance of religious agency in matters of built heritage is again brought to the fore.Less
This chapter examines the Casa Romuli, the thatched hut associated with the city’s founder Romulus and held up as an exemplum of Rome’s origins. Contrary to other examples discussed in the book, this structure consistently retained its original form and the same type of materials when rebuilt. However, in this instance, too, the case is made that the architectural continuity was not motivated by an overt attempt to preserve the historic appearance of the building, but was instead a consequence of other influences. By drawing a comparison with the maintenance of the Pons Sublicius, a new interpretation of the hut is proposed and the relevance of religious agency in matters of built heritage is again brought to the fore.
David Karmon
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199766895
- eISBN:
- 9780199896745
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199766895.003.0001
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, History of Art: pre-history, BCE to 500CE, ancient and classical, Byzantine, World History: BCE to 500CE
This chapter surveys preservation traditions as they can be reconstructed for ancient and medieval Rome. Augustus forged an Italian culture of preservation by strategically reinforcing conservative ...
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This chapter surveys preservation traditions as they can be reconstructed for ancient and medieval Rome. Augustus forged an Italian culture of preservation by strategically reinforcing conservative patterns in Rome while implementing far-reaching cultural, political, and urban transformations. Building upon this precedent, the medieval civic government of Rome also exploited preservation as a means to resist papal power.Less
This chapter surveys preservation traditions as they can be reconstructed for ancient and medieval Rome. Augustus forged an Italian culture of preservation by strategically reinforcing conservative patterns in Rome while implementing far-reaching cultural, political, and urban transformations. Building upon this precedent, the medieval civic government of Rome also exploited preservation as a means to resist papal power.
Julia Hell
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780226588056
- eISBN:
- 9780226588223
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226588223.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter focuses on the scenographic architecture of Augustan era Rome. The author sees in this monumental architecture the foundations of the Romans’ concept of their imperial ruins. The urban ...
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This chapter focuses on the scenographic architecture of Augustan era Rome. The author sees in this monumental architecture the foundations of the Romans’ concept of their imperial ruins. The urban renewal program and buildings like Augustus’s mausoleum, the Ara Pacis, or the theater of Marcellus, turned Rome’s center into the empire’s theo-political stage. The new ornate scene-buildings, or scaenae frons, which decorated Rome’s first permanent theaters, were also part of the empire’s theatricality of politics. The iconic buildings of this architectural stage and their ruins would remain European imperialism’s literal and metaphorical core, a stage-in-ruins to be reconquered literally and metaphorically through the ages.Less
This chapter focuses on the scenographic architecture of Augustan era Rome. The author sees in this monumental architecture the foundations of the Romans’ concept of their imperial ruins. The urban renewal program and buildings like Augustus’s mausoleum, the Ara Pacis, or the theater of Marcellus, turned Rome’s center into the empire’s theo-political stage. The new ornate scene-buildings, or scaenae frons, which decorated Rome’s first permanent theaters, were also part of the empire’s theatricality of politics. The iconic buildings of this architectural stage and their ruins would remain European imperialism’s literal and metaphorical core, a stage-in-ruins to be reconquered literally and metaphorically through the ages.
