Roman Builders
A Study in Architectural Process
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Word Count
80,000 words, Guess
Page Count
320 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7712799M
- ISBN-139780521005838
- ISBN-100521005833
- OCLC Control Number49894684
- OCLC Control Numberromanbuildersstu0000tayl
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- Library of Congress Control Number2002073306
- Goodreads1216298
- LibraryThing324940
Classifications
- LCCTH16 .T38 2003
Description
Rabun Taylor describes how the architectural ideas behind great Roman building projects were carried into practice. He uses the Baths of Caracalla, the Pantheon, the Colosseum & the great temples of Baalbek as physical documents for their own building histories.
First Sentence
In 1586 Domenico Fontana oversaw one of the greatest spectacles in the history of building, the moving of a monolithic Egyptian obelisk from its nearby site in the Vatican, where it had been placed by the Roman emperor Caligula, to its modern position in the Piazza San Pietro.
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