COLLECTION NAME:
Splendore Dell' Antica Roma
Record
Title:
Leaf 113 - Theatrum Marci Scauri
Creator:
Lauro, Giacomo
Description:
This theater was a temporary theater described by Pliny the Elder in 58 BC. "The building had three stories, supported on 360 columns...The lower level was marble; the second, glass -- a sort of luxury which since then has been quite unheard of; and the upper most was made of gilded wood. The lowermost columns... were 38 feet high, and placed between them...were 3,000 statues. The theatre could accommodate 80,000 spectators."
Description:
The verso of this leaf contains text in three languages with the title in Italian: Il Teatro di Marco Scauro
Subject:
Rome (Italy) -- Antiquities.
Subject:
Rome (Italy) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
Subject:
Theater of Marcus Scaurus
Publisher:
Andrea Fei, Roma, 1625
Date:
1625
Coverage:
Rome (Italy)
Coverage:
Italy
Type:
Still Image
Extent:
28.5 x 21 cm
Format/Medium:
Engravings
Source:
Splendore dell'antica Roma, in Jen Library Archives and Special Collections, Savannah College of Art and Design.
Rights:
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.
