In this magisterial two-volume book, Pier Luigi Tucci offers a comprehensive examination of one of the key complexes of Ancient Rome, the Temple of Peace. Based on archival research and an architectural survey, his research sheds new light on the medieval, Renaissance, and Baroq…
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"Les temples étaient omniprésents dans la ville de Rome pendant l'Antiquité et ils dominaient leurs espaces environnants tant par leur statut d'édifices sacrés que par leur architecture imposante et richement décorée. Ce livre nous plonge dans le décor sculpté des temples de Rom…
"Temples were omnipresent in the City of Rome during Antiquity, and they dominated the surrounding spaces by virtue of both their status as sacred buildings and their imposing, richly decorated architecture. This book leads us through the sculptural decoration of Rome's temples …
"Les temples étaient omniprésents dans la ville de Rome pendant l'Antiquité et ils dominaient leurs espaces environnants tant par leur statut d'édifices sacrés que par leur architecture imposante et richement décorée. Ce livre nous plonge dans le décor sculpté des temples de Rom…
The success and smooth functioning of the Roman Republic depended on a careful balancing of the interests of the individual and the interests of the commonwealth. This work examines the process through which new temples were vowed, built, and dedicated as a way of examining key …
The success and smooth functioning of the Roman Republic depended on a careful balancing of the interests of the individual and the interests of the commonwealth. This work examines the process through which new temples were vowed, built, and dedicated as a way of examining key …
Early Christianity seems not to have had a highly developed institutional character. Christians met in the homes of individual members, and there was no such thing as a church building. By the fourth century, however, Christianity had become an official Roman religion, and a new…