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From Hellenistic to Roman Architecture
The issue of stopping speaking about Hellenistic architecture and instead referring to a building as Roman, comes to involve the very nature and meaning both of Greek architecture in its latest phase and Roman architecture in its earliest. Dependable frameworks of art history break down, and issues of definition abound. Virtually every manner by which scholars traditionally characterize periods in the history of architecture must be invoked: chronology and history, geography and culture, materials and techniques, building types and styles, patronage and purpose, theory and meaning. This chapter focuses on the context for the architecture of the second century BCE up to the beginning of the Principate under Augustus (27 BCE). Examination by representative categories offers the advantage of focus on the fundamental building blocks of interpretation that underlie more specific methods and theories.
From Hellenistic to Roman Architecture
The issue of stopping speaking about Hellenistic architecture and instead referring to a building as Roman, comes to involve the very nature and meaning both of Greek architecture in its latest phase and Roman architecture in its earliest. Dependable frameworks of art history break down, and issues of definition abound. Virtually every manner by which scholars traditionally characterize periods in the history of architecture must be invoked: chronology and history, geography and culture, materials and techniques, building types and styles, patronage and purpose, theory and meaning. This chapter focuses on the context for the architecture of the second century BCE up to the beginning of the Principate under Augustus (27 BCE). Examination by representative categories offers the advantage of focus on the fundamental building blocks of interpretation that underlie more specific methods and theories.
From Hellenistic to Roman Architecture
Miles, Margaret M. (editor) / Townsend, Rhys F. (author)
A Companion to Greek Architecture ; 454-469
2016-08-08
16 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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