Etruscan and early Roman architecture
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Etruscan and early Roman architecture
（Yale University Press Pelican history of art）
Yale University Press, 1994, c1978
2nd ed. / [revised by Roger Ling and Tom Rasmussen], new impression
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Etruscan and Roman architecture. Part 1
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"First published as Part One of Etruscan and Roman architecture 1970 by Penguin Books Ltd. Second edition published under the title Etruscan and early Roman architecture, 1978. New impression 1994 by Yale University Press"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical notes (p. [219]-240), bibliography (p. [247]-250), and index
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Description
Axel Boethius's account begins about 1400 B.C. with the primitive villages of the Italic tribes. The scene was transformed by the arrival of the Greeks and by the Etruscans who by about 600 had Rome and Central Italy under their cultural spell.
Table of Contents
- The Stone and Bronze Ages
- the early Iron Age
- Etruscan architecture - techniques and materials, temples - the early temples, types of plan and superstructure, plans, podia, the orders, pediments and roofs, ornament, liturgical disposition
- town planning, domestic architecture, roads and bridges, tombs and cemeteries
- Etruscan Rome
- Rome during the struggle for supremacy in Italy (386-about 200 B.C.)
- Hellenized Rome "Consuetudo Italica" - techniques and materials in public buildings, techniques and materials in domestic architecture, fora, basilicas, temples - ornament, types of plan and superstructure, town planning, domestic architecture, villas, baths, theatres, and other public buildings - baths and plaestrae, circuses, theatres, utilitarian architecture, tombs and cemeteries.
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