Detail View: Splendore Dell' Antica Roma: Leaf 100 - Amphitheatrum Tauri Statilii (Ad Templum S. Crucis in Hierusalem)
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Title:
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Leaf 100 - Amphitheatrum Tauri Statilii (Ad Templum S. Crucis in Hierusalem)
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Creator:
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Lauro, Giacomo
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Description:
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The Amphitheater of Statilius Taurus. An amphitheater can be distinguished from a circus or a hippodrome by the shape. Roman amphitheaters were theaters that were round. The word means "theater all around." Usually they were multi-storied and arcaded.
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Description:
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The verso of this leaf contains text in three languages with page title in Italian: Anfiteatro Statilio Tauro.
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Description:
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This amphitheater was built in 29 BC by Titus Statilius Taurus, a wealthy general and politician in the time of Emperor Augustus. The amphitheater was built of stone and wood on the Campus Martius in Rome, but it was not a large one. In 57 AD, Nero built a new bigger wooden amphitheater, either on this site or a new one, the Amphitheatrum Neronis. After the Great Fire of Rome in 64 AD, both amphitheaters were lost.
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Subject:
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Rome (Italy) -- Antiquities.
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Subject:
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Rome (Italy) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
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Subject:
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Amphitheaters -- Rome.
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Subject:
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Titus Statilius Taurus I
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Subject:
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Amphitheater of Statilius Taurus
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Publisher:
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Andrea Fei, Roma, 1625
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Date:
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1625
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Coverage:
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Rome (Italy)
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Coverage:
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Italy
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Type:
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Still Image
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Extent:
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28.5 x 21 cm
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Format/Medium:
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Engravings
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Source:
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Splendore dell'antica Roma, in Jen Library Archives and Special Collections, Savannah College of Art and Design.
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Relation:
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Catalog record: https://library.scad.edu/record=b1376764
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Rights:
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Though this item is believed to be in the Public Domain, copyright may have been retained by the authors or creators of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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