Detail View: Splendore Dell' Antica Roma: Leaf 40 - De Templo Mercurii
|
Title:
|
Leaf 40 - De Templo Mercurii
|
|
Creator:
|
Lauro, Giacomo
|
|
Description:
|
The image depicts the Temple of Mercury, located on the Aventine Hill and dedicated in 495 BC. Mercury took on a similar role to Hermes in Greek Mythology, and dedicating the temple in May associated Mercury with parent Zeus and Maia. It was one of the first temples to use a concrete domed roof.
|
|
Description:
|
The verso of this leaf contains text in three languages with page titles in Italian: Tempio di Mercurio.
|
|
Subject:
|
Rome (Italy) -- Antiquities.
|
|
Subject:
|
Temples, Roman.
|
|
Subject:
|
Rome (Italy) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
|
|
Subject:
|
Temple of Mercury
|
|
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.
|
|
Relation:
|
Catalog record: https://library.scad.edu/record=b1376764
|
|
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.
|