1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462832103321

Titolo

Monumentality in Etruscan and early Roman architecture [[electronic resource]] : ideology and innovation / / edited by Michael L. Thomas and Gretchen E. Meyers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, Tex., : University of Texas Press, c2012

ISBN

0-292-73889-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ThomasMichael L. <1966->

MeyersGretchen E. <1970->

Disciplina

722/.7

Soggetti

Architecture, Etruscan

Architecture, Roman - Italy, Central

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: the experience of monumentality in Etruscan and early Roman architecture / Gretchen E. Meyers -- Straw to stone, huts to houses: transitions in building practices and society in protohistoric Latium / Elizabeth Colantoni -- The performance of death: monumentality, burial practice, and community identity in central Italy's urbanizing period / Anthony Tuck -- Monumentalization of the Etruscan round moulding in sixth-century BCE central Italy / Nancy A. Winter -- Monumental embodiment: somatic symbolism and the Tuscan temple / P. Gregory Warden -- The Capitoline temple and the effects of monumentality on Roman temple design / John N. Hopkins -- On the introduction of stone entablatures in republican temples in Rome / Penelope J. E. Davies -- Afterword. Reflections / Ingrid E. M. Edlund-Berry.