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COLEGIO AMERICANO DE BOGOTÁ |
Juan Sebastian Llanes Pinilla. |
Art & Architecture |
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01/04/2011 |
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Art & Architecture
Roman Architecture.

RomanArchitecture is one of the most important connections with our civilization, because the Romans gave us a lot of new ideas, which of the most important are the arch, the baked brick, and the use of cementand concrete.
some of the masterpieces of Roman concrete architecture are the Colosseum and Pantheon.

* Technology and Revolution in Roman Architecture :

The revolution in Romanarchitecture resulting from the widespread adoption of concrete in the late second and first centuries B.C. some of the uses of the concrete was the transformation of a mountain into a work of architecture, withramps and stairs leading from one level to the next and porticoes revealing panoramic views.

* Painting Palaces and Villas in the First Century A.D :
Few of these styles coexist in the DomusAurea, the luxurious pleasure palace of the emperor Nero in downtown Rome.
* Roman Tombs :
This topic is about of the pyramidal Tomb of Gaius Cestius,an aristocrat related to Marcus Agrippa, andthe trapezoidal Tomb of Marcus Vergilius Eurysaces, probably a former slave who made his fortune overseeing the baking and public distribution of bread for the Roman army, including extensivesubterranean secret passages.
Here the concrete appears again in the construction of tombs.

* Ara Pacis Augustae :
Commissioned a monument to his return of Augustus in Rome, afterdiplomatic victories in Spain and Gaul, and acts as the incarnation of Luna marble back hegemonic rule of the emperor.
* Domestic Architecture :
a. Professor Kleiner discusses domesticarchitecture at Pompeii since its inception in the fourth and third centuries BC, the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. The structure of the buildings was mural, its heavy weight carried something covers the...