Virtual Museum on
Ancient Rome’s
Architecture
Farina Amer
HUM 1020
Professor- Ms. Levi- Aland
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Index:
Ancient Rome; Brief History
Ancient Rome; Architecture
Roman Coliseums
The Aqueducts
The Columns
The Arches
Roman baths
Pompeii
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Index:
Bibliography
Paper Assignment “Virtual
Museum”
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Ancient Rome
 Rome was one of the greatest
powers of the ancient world,
and has also exercised a great
influence upon nearly all modern nations.
 The Roman Empire lasted from 509 BC to AD 330. Early
Roman art reflected its past in Etruscan civilization, but as the
empire expanded, a distinctly Roman art emerged, the art of
many different peoples and classes, from emperors to slaves.
The architecture of the Romans was, from first to last, an art
of shaping space around ritual". In other words, Ancient
Roman architecture was regulated by their custom of a
system of rites. Throughout this page, you will see the history
and actual buildings of Roman architecture, how it relates to
Roman rituals, and why the Romans were great builder of
places of worship, country house, and public building carved
out of marble.
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Ancient Rome’s Architecture:
Roman Coliseums:
Facade was limestone, brick & concrete
with marble facing; 3 orders superimposed
(Doric, Ionic, Corinthian)
Closer exterior overview
In the ancient world, the elliptical-shaped Colosseum,
taking ten years to build, was the largest structure of
its type. It stood 160 feet high with four stories of windows,
arches, and columns.
Interior of the colosseum
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Ancient Rome’s Architecture
The Aqueducts
Aqueducts are channels constructed of brick or stone designed to carry water to a location in which
it can be used. Although Rome didn't have the first aqueduct of the world, it was the only major city
reasonably supplied with water and therefore most famous for them.
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Ancient Rome’s Architecture
The Columns
Columns of Temple to Dioscuri
(Castor and Pollux) on the Roman
Forum (6 AD)
The columns were utilized as a support and decoration. The Ancient
Roman came up with five different types of columns, which are the
Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite. Most of these,
however, were adopted from Greek columns.
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Ancient Rome’s Architecture
The Arches
Arch of Severus is the A classic example of the triumphal
arch type.
Arch of Constantine is the Ancient Roman
Corinthian style arch that has a bearing
Masonry construction system.
Arch of Titus is the triumpal arch, gateway
Arch of Janus located near the Forum Holitorium
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Ancient Rome’s Architecture
Pantheon
The Pantheon, one of the most impressive buildings in Rome,
was rebuilt in A.D. 117-125 by Emperor Hadrian to replace an earlier temple
designed by Agrippa in 27 B.C. The original rectangular temple, consisting of
sixteen single granite columns, became the porch for the newly devised dome
structure.
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Ancient Rome’s Architecture
Roman Baths
Public baths were an important part of Roman life. Early baths generally
had dressing room suites and bathing chambers with hot- , warm- ,
and cold-water baths alongside an exercise area. Later, baths became
progressively grander, incorporating libraries, lecture halls, and vast
vaulted public spaces elaborately decorated with statues, mosaics,
and paintings.
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Ancient Rome’s Architecture
Pompeii: Public sites
The forum was the locus of Senate and Imperial proclamations,
the place where the augurs were read and the auspices
pronounced, and a central area for ostentatious display of grief
and gratitude.
The Amphitheater
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Bibliography
Andrus, K., & University of Colorado. (2000, January). Roman Art and
Architecture (chap.). Retrieved November 9, 2006, from Harpy:
http://harpy.uccs.edu/roman/html/roman.html
D'jordjevic, G. (2005). Ancient Roman Architecture. Retrieved , 2005, from
geocities:
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Workshop/5220/ancient/roman.html
Flood, L., Pope, C., Jahnige, J., & Thompson, R. (2004). Roman Forum
(chap.). Retrieved October 20, 2005, from Vroma:
http://www.vroma.org/~forum/forum.html
Mathews, K., & Artifice, Inc. (2005). Great Buildings. In Great Buildings
(chap.). Retrieved October 15, 2005, from Great Buildings:
http://www.GreatBuildings.com/types/styles/roman.html
Neelin, D. (2005). Timeline: Ancient Rome (chap.). Retrieved October 10,
2005, from Exovedate:
http://www.exovedate.com/ancient_timeline_one.html
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Paper “Virtual Museum”
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The research was obtained from the internet. I checked different
websites on the internet to explore the “Ancient Rome” sites. These all
sources that I found on the websites listed under reference section,
were very helpful to my selected topic of “Ancient Architecture”. I found
“Ancient Roman History Timeline” very interesting because it doesn’t
give details on the Roman architecture but also gives interesting
information about the findings of the legendary Rome, the invasions
and wars, the emperors of Rome, Roman coins, and the Roman
religion.
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Paper Assignment:
 I tried to copy and paste the interesting pictures for my museum but
it didn’t work so I had to save those in my picture file and then insert
it into my power point slides. I also found inserting the text into my
slides for the pictures very difficult. I have not done this before and I
am not very good in using technologies but I tried my best to present
the best museum that I can. It took me several days just to figure
out how I can insert the test to explain about the pictures in my
slides but finally was able to do so.
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Paper Assignment
 The material was not very easy to get the necessary details and
information and arrange it into slides. I would say that it took almost
a week for me to search different sites and choosing the ones that
interested me. So, it was kind of lengthy and time consuming and
required hard work but it was interesting to do that first time in my
life. Finding the pictures of different building and places of Ancient
Rome were most valuable because of the required topic to explain
and show the architecture of Rome.
 The things that appealed me about my topic was the vast range of
information. I get to know the details of these places, buildings and
architectures in detail because I had to read about each picture
information in detail to come up with the small version of the detailed
explanation about a specific picture. This topic was important to
study because it interested me and it was one of the required topic
to work on. Besides that, it was important because I get to know
every detail about the Roman architecture, which I can say that
really increases my knowledge.
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Paper Assignment:
 I think the details that was provided with the interesting pictures will
give education to people who visit my museum about what kind of
material were used to make those buildings, what was these
buildings symbolize, the use of different architecture in creating
beauty and uniqueness and the history and lifestyle of Roman
people. It is important to learn about this topic because my museum
not just interest people to find out the architecture of Rome, different
buildings that were build during that time but it enhances the
information by images to build interest in people visiting my museum
to even learn more about this if needed by going to the bibliography
sites and getting information in detail.
 I would like you to know that this is my first project to create a
museum. It was very much fun but needed a lot of time and
attention and technology to figure it out to put all my information and
pictures into the slides. It really took a chunk of time to think and
finding out what would interest people when they visit my museum.
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