| Description |
1 online resource |
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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 |
| Summary |
"Experts explore what factors drove the emergence of scale as a defining element in ancient Italian architecture, and how these factors influenced the origins and development of Etruscan and early Roman monumental designs."--Project Muse |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Architecture, Etruscan.
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Architecture, Roman -- Italy, Central
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ARCHITECTURE -- History -- Prehistoric & Primitive.
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Architecture, Etruscan
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Architecture, Roman
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Italy -- Italy, Central
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| Genre/Form |
Festschriften
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Festschriften.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Thomas, Michael L., 1966- editor.
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Meyers, Gretchen E., 1970- author, editor.
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Edlund-Berry, Ingrid E. M., author, honouree.
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| ISBN |
9780292738898 |
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0292738897 |
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