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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Rome, Lazio, Italyen_US
dc.coverage.temporal54-44 BCE (creation); rebuilt 95 CE (restoration)en_US
dc.creatorunknown (Roman (ancient))en_US
dc.date-44--54en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-02-25T17:51:01Z
dc.date.available2013-02-25T17:51:01Z
dc.date.issued-44--54en_US
dc.identifier196053en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 1534en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/103561
dc.descriptionGeneral view, showing remains, looking east; Many of Julius Caesar's projects remained unfinished at his death. One such project was his Forum Julium, a rectangular enclosure surrounded on three sides by colonnades and dominated on the fourth by the Temple of Venus Genetrix, built to the north of the old forum on land that he had acquired c. 54 BC. The temple follows the established Roman pattern of combining an Italic plan with Hellenistic details, but its situation within a colonnaded enclosure seems to derive from such Hellenistic schemes as the Sanctuary of Athena (mainly 197-159 BC) at Pergamon. The Forum Julium established the pattern for the later Imperial Fora, such as the Forum Augustum, the Templum Pacis and the Forum of Nerva, as well as countless similar projects in the great provincial cities. The complex was also of importance because the Temple of Venus Genetrix was built of white Carrara marble, which was beginning to be exploited at this time and would eventually change the appearance of Rome under Augustus. It was extensively used by leading late Republican architects in shaping the Roman version of the Corinthian order with which Roman architecture is so closely identified. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 7/11/2008)en_US
dc.format.mediumstone; marbleen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectural exteriorsen_US
dc.subjectbusiness, commerce and tradeen_US
dc.subjectcityscapesen_US
dc.subjectrulers and leadersen_US
dc.subjectCaesar, Juliusen_US
dc.subjectCity planningen_US
dc.subjectRoman Empireen_US
dc.subjectgovernmenten_US
dc.subjectImperial (Roman)en_US
dc.subjectLate Republicanen_US
dc.titleForum of Caesaren_US
dc.title.alternativeCaesarisen_US
dc.title.alternativeForum Juliumen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A3-R-R-FC-A1en_US
vra.culturalContextAncient Romanen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypeexcavation (site)en_US
vra.worktypeforum (open space)en_US
dc.contributor.displayunknown (Roman (ancient))en_US


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