Drawings in Greek and Roman Architecture

Antonio Corso

• Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781784913717
• eBook ISBN: 9781784913724
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Archaeology
• Index: Social Sciences

This book is an essay on architectural drawings of the Greek and Roman world. The first chapter is focused on the possibility that ancient treatises of architectures were endowed with drawings in order to make clear expositions which sometimes were not easily explainable only with words. Then the drawings which once clarified the treatise of Vitruvius are considered. The problem concerning the possible presence of drawings in post-Vitruvian architectural treatises is also discussed. The issue as to whether descriptive literary compositions sometimes contained illustrations as well is also examined. Then representations of architecture in Roman treatises on divisions of land (the so called gromatic treatises) are considered. The references to architectural drawings in literary and epigraphical testimonia are collected and a catalogue of the surviving Greek and Roman drawings of buildings or of parts of them is given. Thus this research offers all the basic data for the study of an important tool in the context of architecture in antiquity.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Copyright Information
• Contents
• Abstract
• Introduction
• 1. The treatises written by architects about specific architectural works made by them
• 2. The illustrations which accompanied the text of the de architectura by Vitruvius
• 3. Drawings included in handbooks after Vitruvius.
• 4. Images attached to ancient descriptions of architectures
• 5. Miniature illustrations in Gromatic treatises.
• 6. References to architectural drawings in ancient literatures and inscriptions
• 7. Archaeological evidence of drawings of architectures
• 8. Conclusions.
• 9. Catalogue of drawings of architectures in the Greek and Roman world.
• 1. Drawing from the temple of Athena at Priene from Koenigs (note 109).
• 2. Drawings from the Didymaion from Haselberger (note 110) .
• 3. Drawings from the Didymaion from Haselberger (note 110) .
• 4. Drawings from the Didymaion from Haselberger (note 110) .
• 5. Drawings from the Didymaion from Haselberger (note 110) .
• 6. Drawings from the Didymaion from Haselberger (note 110) .
• 7. Drawings from the Didymaion from Haselberger (note 110) .
• 8. Drawings from the Didymaion from Haselberger (note 110) .
• 9. Drawings from the Didymaion from Haselberger (note 110) .
• 10. Drawings from the Iseum of Philae from Heisel (note 109) .
• 11. Drawings from the Iseum of Philae from Heisel (note 109) .
• 12. Drawing from the temple of Horus at Edfu from Heisel (note 109).
• 13. Drawings from Susa from Heisel (note 109).
• 14. Drawings from Susa from Heisel (note 109).
• 15. Drawings from the temple of Mandulis at Bab–al–Kalabsha from Heisel (note 109).
• 16. Drawings from the temple of Mandulis at Bab–al–Kalabsha from Heisel (note 109).
• 17. Drawings from Gebel Abu Foda from Heisel (note 109).
• 18. Drawings from Gebel Abu Foda from Heisel (note 109).
• 19. Drawing from Meroe from Heisel (note 109).
• 20. Drawing from the papyrus of Oxyrhynchus 2406 from Haselberger (note 110).
• 21. Drawing from the papyrus of Oxyrhynchus 4842 from Coulton (note 133)
• 22. Drawings from Bziza from Heisel (note 109).
• 23. Drawings from Bziza from Heisel (note 109).
• 24. Drawings from Baalbek from Lohmann (note 138)
• 25. Drawings from Baalbek from Lohmann (note 138)
• 26a. Drawings from Baalbek from Lohmann (note 138)
• 26b. Drawings from Baalbek from Lohmann (note 138)
• 27. Drawings from Baalbek from Lohmann (note 138)
• 28. Drawings from Baalbek from Lohmann (note 138)
• 29. Drawings from the terrace of the theatre of Pergamum from Heisel (note 109) and Haselberger (note 110).
• 30. Drawings from the terrace of the theatre of Pergamum from Heisel (note 109) and Haselberger (note 110).
• 31. Drawings from the court in front of the Mausoleum of Augustus at Rome from Haselberger (note 141).
• 32. Drawings from the court in front of the Mausoleum of Augustus at Rome from Haselberger (note 141).
• 33. Drawings from the large Amphitheater of Capua from Heisel (note 109).
• 34. Drawings from the large Amphitheater of Capua from Heisel (note 109).
• 35. Drawings from the large Amphitheater of Capua from Heisel (note 109).
• 36. Drawing from the Amphitheater of Pola from Haselberger (note 110).
• 37. Drawing from Thysdrus at Bern from Loertscher (note 145).
• 38. Fragment of marble panel from Via Anicia at Rome from Tucci (note 148).
• 39. Fragment of marble panel from the Oppius hill at Rome from Meneghini and Santangeli Valenzani (note 148).
• 40. Marble panel from the Forum of Nerva at Rome, ibidem.
• 41. Marble panel at Urbino, Lapidario del Palazzo Ducale, and restitution drawing of the represented Mausoleum by Huelsen, ibidem.
• 42. Marble panel at Urbino, Lapidario del Palazzo Ducale, and restitution drawing of the represented Mausoleum by Huelsen, ibidem.
• 43. Marble panel of Perugia, Museo Archeologico, and restitution drawing of the represented Mausoleum by Huelsen, ibidem.
• 44. Marble panel of Perugia, Museo Archeologico, and restitution drawing of the represented Mausoleum by Huelsen, ibidem.
• 45. Marble panel from Portus, ibidem.
• 46. Marble panel quondam ad Amelia, ibidem.
• 47. Drawing restitution of the Severan forma Urbis with the surviving fragments in their original places, ibidem.
• 48. Marble panel of the Forum of Augustus, ibidem.
• 49. Plan of Aguntum, from Heisel (note 109).
• 50. Plan of aqueduct from the Aventinus hill, from Heisel (note 109).
• 51. Mosaic with drawing of baths from Via Marsala at Roma, from Heisel (note 109).
• 52. Mosaic with drawing of funerary enclosure from Ostia, from Heisel (note 109).
• 53. Mosaic with drawing of circus from Luni, House of Mosaics, from Meneghini and Santangeli Valenzani (note 148).
• 54. Drawing of rotunda from Pompeii, Casa del Citarista, from De Vos (note 155).
• 55. Drawing of capital from Pompeii, Casa di Cerere, from De Vos (note 156).
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