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Reconstructive axonometric section showing the Great Hall in the context of the site of Trajan's Market. "The present entrance to Trajan's Market is by the Great Hall, definitely the most imposing and representative interior in the complex, a...
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Shows the buildings into which the complex was subdivided: 1. Main Hall, 2. Central Block, 3. Giardino delle Milizie and Torre delle Milizie, 4. Insula of the Salita del Grillo, 5. Via Biberatica, 6. Great Hemicycle and rooms at the ends of the...
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Shows the four levels of the Great Hall, part of the interior of the third floor of the Central Block, the first two levels of the Great Hemicycle and the interior of the Hall at the north end. (Caption, p. 56)
Based on a drawing by Lanciano and Carpano (caption, p.197); “The Colosseum was begun by Vespasian in the 70s AD on the site of the lake of Nero’s Domus Aurea, and was financed from the spoils of the sack of Jerusalem in AD 70. It was dedicated...
"[...] with the stucco decoration restored from the existing remains and from Renaissance drawings." (caption, p.194); “The Colosseum was begun by Vespasian in the 70s AD on the site of the lake of Nero’s Domus Aurea, and was financed...
“The Colosseum was begun by Vespasian in the 70s AD on the site of the lake of Nero’s Domus Aurea, and was financed from the spoils of the sack of Jerusalem in AD 70. It was dedicated in AD 80 by Titus, after his father’s death.” (p.192)
“The Colosseum was begun by Vespasian in the 70s AD on the site of the lake of Nero’s Domus Aurea, and was financed from the spoils of the sack of Jerusalem in AD 70. It was dedicated in AD 80 by Titus, after his father’s death.” (p.192)
“The porch has sixteen Egyptian grey and red granite columns, each 40 Roman feet in height and weighing about 84 tons. […] The diameter and height of the rotunda are exactly the same, 43.2 metres [meters] (140 feet). […] The walls of the...
