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Monumentality and the Roman Empire - Architecture in the Antonine Age (Hardcover, New)
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Monumentality and the Roman Empire - Architecture in the Antonine Age (Hardcover, New)
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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.
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