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Argiletum. Visita Virtual Romanorum Vita. Une Rome Antique , le Colisée et le Théatre de Pompée. Digging Through Time. History: Romans. Arch of Titus. Ancient Rome. Art History: Ancient Rome. Sistine Chapel. Taidehistorian sanasto. Architecture of Rome, Italy. Barokki arkkitehtuuri. Sant'Ignazio Church, Rome. History[edit] The Collegio Romano opened very humbly in 1551, with an inscription over the door summing up its simple purpose: "School of Grammar, Humanity, and Christian Doctrine.

Sant'Ignazio Church, Rome

Free". [2] Plagued by financial problems in the early years,[3] the Collegio Romano had various provisional centres. In 1560, Vittoria della Tolfa,[4] Marchesa della Valle, donated her family isola, an entire city block and its existing buildings, to the Society of Jesus in memory of her late husband the Marchese della Guardia Camillo Orsini, founding the Collegio Romano.[3] She had previously intended to donate it to the Poor Clares for the founding of a monastery.[5] The nuns had already started to build what had been intended to become the Church of Santa Maria della Nunziata,[3] erected on the spot where the Temple of Isis had stood.[6][1] Although the Jesuits got the marchesa's land, they did not get any money from her for completing the church. Interior[edit] "Dome" of Sant'Ignazio Side chapels[edit] Apse. Andrea Pozzo, Saint Ignatius Chapel in the church Il Gesù, 1695, Rome. Il Gesù, Rome. S. Carlo Alle Quattro Fontane - Frencesco Borromini.

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S. Carlo Alle Quattro Fontane - Frencesco Borromini

Carlo Alle Quattro Fontane Pierre Charpentrat. Living Architecture: Baroque. London: Oldbourne Book Co., 1967. Columbia University in the City of New York. European architecture of the 17th century, referred to as Baroque, is characterized by magnificence, grandeur and richness in invention, design and, usually, in scale.

Columbia University in the City of New York

The Papacy in Rome remained a principal motivating force and commanding Popes continued to support important architectural commissions. But political developments throughout Europe during the preceding century, particularly the urge toward nation-building and centralized authority, produced a new range of powerful royal patrons who harnessed architecture and urban planning as a means of demonstrating the supremacy of the state.

Innovative architectural ideas began from the Classical principals that had dominated the Renaissance, further stimulated by the often clever and surprising buildings of the mid and late 16th century. Baroque architecture emerges first in Italy, a land favored by an enviable confluence of forces that fostered cultural renewal and reinvention for centuries. Art History: 400-1300 Medieval Era. Mausoleum of S. Costanza - Rome, Italy - Great Buildings Timeline. Tempietto of San Pietro - Donato Bramante. Sources on Tempietto of San Pietro Mitchell Beazley.

Tempietto of San Pietro - Donato Bramante

The World Atlas of Architecture. New York: Portland House, 1988. ISBN 0-517-66875-0. p276. Werner Blaser and Monica Stucky. Arnaldo Bruschi. Francis D. Roger H. Donald Corner and Jenny Young. Archbasilica of St. John Lateran. The Papal Archbasilica of St.

Archbasilica of St. John Lateran

John Lateran (Italian: Arcibasilica Papale di San Giovanni in Laterano), commonly known as St. John Lateran's Archbasilica, St. Santa Sabina. Basilica of Santa Sabina, Rome, c. 432 C.E.

Santa Sabina

Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Santa Sabina, Rome Basilicas—a type of building used by the ancient Romans for diverse functions including as a site for law courts, is the category of building that Constantine's architects adapted to serve as the basis for the new churches. This interior would have had a dramatically different effect than the classical building. Rome (Italy. Rome, Italian Roma, historic city and capital of Roma provincia (province), of Lazio regione (region), and of the country of Italy.

Rome (Italy

Rome is located in the central portion of the Italian peninsula, on the Tiber River about 15 miles (24 km) inland from the Tyrrhenian Sea. The capital of an ancient republic and empire (see ancient Rome) whose armies and polity defined the Western world in antiquity and left seemingly indelible imprints thereafter, the spiritual and physical seat of the Roman Catholic Church, and the site of major pinnacles of artistic and intellectual achievement, Rome is the Eternal ... (100 of 21,560 words) <ul><li><a href="/EBchecked/media/164516/Rome-Italy? TopicId=508807"><img src=" alt="Rome, Italy" /><span>Rome, Italy. </span></a></li><li><a href="/EBchecked/media/17214/Piazza-Navona-Rome-with-the-church-of-SantAgnese-designed-by? Museo della Civiltà Romana. Rome Reborn. Rome Reborn 2.2: A Tour of Ancient Rome in 320 CE.

Tdar_pomp. THE THEATRE OF POMPEY. Watering Ancient Rome. Posted 02.22.00 NOVA Peter Aicher, an Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Southern Maine, has spent years studying the graceful arches and ingenious plumbing of Ancient Rome's vast water distrubution system.

Watering Ancient Rome

In this interview, he describes how the Romans developed this elaborate system, which included aqueducts 60 miles long. Roman architects and hydraulic engineers built the magnificent water-transporting bridge known as Pont du Gard 2,000 years ago. Enlarge Photo credit: © Samo Trebizan/iStockphoto An Empire Built on Water NOVA: I thought we'd begin by looking at the big picture. Peter Aicher: The Romans could not have built cities as big as they did without aqueducts—and some of their cities wouldn't have existed at all.

It also would be impossible to imagine Rome, which had about 1,000,000 people at its peak, without its large aqueducts. Their society would have been very different without imported water. Maquette de Rome.