1 Virtual Museum on Ancient Rome’s Architecture Farina Amer HUM 1020 Professor- Ms. Levi- Aland This presentation will probably involve audience discussion, which will create action items. Use PowerPoint to keep track of these action items during your presentation In Slide Show, click on the right mouse button Select “Meeting Minder” Select the “Action Items” tab Type in action items as they come up Click OK to dismiss this box This will automatically create an Action Item slide at the end of your presentation with your points entered.

2 Index: Ancient Rome; Brief History Ancient Rome; Architecture Roman Coliseums The Aqueducts The Columns The Arches Roman baths Pompeii

3 Index: Bibliography Paper Assignment “Virtual Museum”

4 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.

5 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

6 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.

7 Ancient Rome’s Architecture The Columns 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. Columns of Temple to Dioscuri (Castor and Pollux) on the Roman Forum (6 AD)

8 Ancient Rome’s Architecture The Arches Arch of Constantine is the Ancient Roman Corinthian style arch that has a bearing Masonry construction system. Arch of Severus is the A classic example of the triumphal arch type. Arch of Janus located near the Forum Holitorium Arch of Titus is the triumpal arch, gateway

9 Ancient Rome’s Architecture Pantheon The Pantheon, one of the most impressive buildings in Rome, was rebuilt in A.D 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.

10 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.

11 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

12 Bibliography Andrus, K., & University of Colorado. (2000, January). Roman Art and Architecture (chap.). Retrieved November 9, 2006, from Harpy: D'jordjevic, G. (2005). Ancient Roman Architecture. Retrieved, 2005, from geocities: Flood, L., Pope, C., Jahnige, J., & Thompson, R. (2004). Roman Forum (chap.). Retrieved October 20, 2005, from Vroma: Mathews, K., & Artifice, Inc. (2005). Great Buildings. In Great Buildings (chap.). Retrieved October 15, 2005, from Great Buildings: Neelin, D. (2005). Timeline: Ancient Rome (chap.). Retrieved October 10, 2005, from Exovedate:

13 Paper “Virtual Museum”  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.

14 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.

15 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.

16 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.