Virtual Museum on Ancient Rome

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Virtual Museum on Ancient Romes Architecture

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• Farina Amer
• HUM 1020
• Professor- Ms. Levi- Aland

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Index

• Ancient Rome Brief History
• Ancient Rome Architecture
• Roman Coliseums
• The Aqueducts
• The Columns
• The Arches
• Roman baths
• Pompeii

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Index

• Bibliography
• Paper Assignment Virtual Museum

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Ancient Rome

• Rome was one of the greatest
• powers of the ancient world,
• and has also exercised a great
• influence upon nearly all modern nations.
• The Roman Empire lasted from 509 BC to AD 330.
  Early Roman art reflected its past in Etruscan
  civilization, but as the empire expanded, a
  distinctly Roman art emerged, the art of many
  different peoples and classes, from emperors to
  slaves. The architecture of the Romans was, from
  first to last, an art of shaping space around
  ritual". In other words, Ancient Roman
  architecture was regulated by their custom of a
  system of rites. Throughout this page, you will
  see the history and actual buildings of Roman
  architecture, how it relates to Roman rituals,
  and why the Romans were great builder of places
  of worship, country house, and public building
  carved out of marble.

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Ancient Romes Architecture

• Roman Coliseums

In the ancient world, the elliptical-shaped
Colosseum, taking ten years to build, was the
largest structure of its type. It stood 160 feet
high with four stories of windows, arches, and
columns.
Facade was limestone, brick concrete with
marble facing 3 orders superimposed (Doric,
Ionic, Corinthian)
Closer exterior overview
Interior of the colosseum
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Ancient Romes Architecture

• The Aqueducts

Aqueducts are channels constructed of brick or
stone designed to carry water to a location in
which it can be used. Although Rome didn't have
the first aqueduct of the world, it was the only
major city reasonably supplied with water and
therefore most famous for them.
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Ancient Romes Architecture
Columns of Temple to Dioscuri (Castor and
Pollux) on the Roman Forum (6 AD)

• The Columns

The columns were utilized as a support and
decoration. The Ancient Roman came up with five
different types of columns, which are the
Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite.
Most of these, however, were adopted from Greek
columns.
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• The Arches

Arch of Severus is the A classic example of the
triumphal arch type.
Arch of Constantine is the Ancient Roman
Corinthian style arch that has a bearing
Masonry construction system.
Arch of Titus is the triumpal arch, gateway
Arch of Janus located near the Forum Holitorium
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• Pantheon

The Pantheon, one of the most impressive
buildings in Rome, was rebuilt in A.D. 117-125
by Emperor Hadrian to replace an earlier temple
designed by Agrippa in 27 B.C. The original
rectangular temple, consisting of sixteen single
granite columns, became the porch for the newly
devised dome structure.
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Ancient Romes Architecture

• Roman Baths

Public baths were an important part of Roman
life. Early baths generally had dressing room
suites and bathing chambers with hot- , warm- ,
and cold-water baths alongside an exercise area.
Later, baths became progressively grander,
incorporating libraries, lecture halls, and vast
vaulted public spaces elaborately decorated with
statues, mosaics, and paintings.
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• Pompeii Public sites

The Amphitheater
The forum was the locus of Senate and
Imperial proclamations, the place where the
augurs were read and the auspices pronounced,
and a central area for ostentatious display of
grief and gratitude.
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Bibliography

• Andrus, K., University of Colorado. (2000,
  January). Roman Art and Architecture (chap.).
  Retrieved November 9, 2006, from Harpy
  http//harpy.uccs.edu/roman/html/roman.html
• D'jordjevic, G. (2005). Ancient Roman
  Architecture. Retrieved , 2005, from geocities
  http//www.geocities.com/SoHo/Workshop/5220/ancien
  t/roman.html
• Flood, L., Pope, C., Jahnige, J., Thompson, R.
  (2004). Roman Forum (chap.). Retrieved October
  20, 2005, from Vroma http//www.vroma.org/forum/
  forum.html
• Mathews, K., Artifice, Inc. (2005). Great
  Buildings. In Great Buildings (chap.). Retrieved
  October 15, 2005, from Great Buildings
  http//www.GreatBuildings.com/types/styles/roman.h
  tml
• Neelin, D. (2005). Timeline Ancient Rome
  (chap.). Retrieved October 10, 2005, from
  Exovedate http//www.exovedate.com/ancient_timeli
  ne_one.html

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Paper Virtual Museum

• The research was obtained from the internet. I
  checked different
• websites on the internet to explore the
  Ancient Rome sites. These all
• sources that I found on the websites listed
  under reference section,
• were very helpful to my selected topic of
  Ancient Architecture. I found
• Ancient Roman History Timeline very
  interesting because it doesnt
• give details on the Roman architecture but also
  gives interesting
• information about the findings of the legendary
  Rome, the invasions
• and wars, the emperors of Rome, Roman coins,
  and the Roman
• religion.

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Paper Assignment

• I tried to copy and paste the interesting
  pictures for my museum but it didnt work so I
  had to save those in my picture file and then
  insert it into my power point slides. I also
  found inserting the text into my slides for the
  pictures very difficult. I have not done this
  before and I am not very good in using
  technologies but I tried my best to present the
  best museum that I can. It took me several days
  just to figure out how I can insert the test to
  explain about the pictures in my slides but
  finally was able to do so.

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Paper Assignment

• The material was not very easy to get the
  necessary details and information and arrange it
  into slides. I would say that it took almost a
  week for me to search different sites and
  choosing the ones that interested me. So, it was
  kind of lengthy and time consuming and required
  hard work but it was interesting to do that first
  time in my life. Finding the pictures of
  different building and places of Ancient Rome
  were most valuable because of the required topic
  to explain and show the architecture of Rome.
• The things that appealed me about my topic was
  the vast range of information. I get to know the
  details of these places, buildings and
  architectures in detail because I had to read
  about each picture information in detail to come
  up with the small version of the detailed
  explanation about a specific picture. This topic
  was important to study because it interested me
  and it was one of the required topic to work on.
  Besides that, it was important because I get to
  know every detail about the Roman architecture,
  which I can say that really increases my
  knowledge.

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Paper Assignment

• I think the details that was provided with the
  interesting pictures will give education to
  people who visit my museum about what kind of
  material were used to make those buildings, what
  was these buildings symbolize, the use of
  different architecture in creating beauty and
  uniqueness and the history and lifestyle of Roman
  people. It is important to learn about this
  topic because my museum not just interest people
  to find out the architecture of Rome, different
  buildings that were build during that time but it
  enhances the information by images to build
  interest in people visiting my museum to even
  learn more about this if needed by going to the
  bibliography sites and getting information in
  detail.
• I would like you to know that this is my first
  project to create a museum. It was very much fun
  but needed a lot of time and attention and
  technology to figure it out to put all my
  information and pictures into the slides. It
  really took a chunk of time to think and finding
  out what would interest people when they visit my
  museum.