16 March
Taken Literally ends
1993.03.16
Siamese
1994.03.16
TPH397 Renaissance and the navel
TPH398 "The Past"
1995.03.16
Whitaker Mills (historic)
1998.03.16
gallery 1999
different
5233 Arbor Street
1999.03.16
urinal in a gallery OR being pissy
2000.03.16
Re: Architectural theories, again
2000.03.16
Re: urinal in a gallery
2000.03.16
010316a.db elevations of the Princeton Memorial Park tower
Re: thank you from Sara, one of JB's daughters
2003.03.16 14:22
ID design help
2003.03.16 14:44
back to the future
2003.03.16 17:33
war talk
2003.03.16 19:01
2003.03.16 21:39
Re: before or after the Viking invasion ?
2004.03.16 10:20
Un-Schloss Schizophrenia
2004.03.16
Re: Larry vs. Damien
2005.03.16 11:53
on Roman bath houses
2006.03.16 09:57
2006.03.16 13:02
2006.03.16 14:29
Complex Iconography and Contradictory Content in Architecture
2006.03.16 10:28
2006.03.16 13:14
REALITY/FAKERS
2006.03.16 10:47
Quondam's 10th Anniversary
2006.03.16 11:01
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Re: Architectural theories, again
2000.03.16
In researching Piranesi's Ichnographia Campus Martius, I've had to do much reading of classical texts. Piranesi cites the works of many ancient/classical authors, wherein there are references to structures within ancient Rome, many structure, moreover, that now exist only as textual descriptions in the cited texts. In reading Seutonius' Life of Augustus Caesar, there is a reference to a delegation from India that visited Rome during Augustus' reign. Foreigners (i.e., non-Roman citizens) were not allowed within Rome's sacred boundary (within Rome's walls), thus they stayed in the Campus Martius. When "history" tells us that Augustus left Rome a city of marble, it by and large means all the new Roman construction (a true building boom) that occurred within the Campus Martius during the time of Augustus. The "greatest" new building was (at least for political/symbolic reasons) the new tomb of Augustus--a huge perfect circular masonry mound clad in marble, accented with obelisks, sculptures, and trees.
Around the same time that I read The Life of Augustus Caesar, I "browsed" through a recent historical survey book on architecture, and it was there that I came across a photo and plan of the Great Stupa in India. The Great Stupa and the Mausoleum of Augustus are extremely similar in plan, figure, and scale. The date of the Great Stupa is c.258-236 BC. Did the delegation from India present Augustus with images of the Great Stupa?
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