The Forum of Trajan in Rome

by Packer, James E.

• ISBN13: 9780520226739
• ISBN10: 0520226739
• Edition: Map
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr
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Summary

The first-ever systematic account of the creation, destruction, excavation, and attempts at reconstruction of the Forum of Trajan in Rome.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations in the Captions and Figure Credits	ix
List of figures	xi
Introduction	xvii
PART I THE FORUM OF TRAJAN
The Construction and History of the Forum of Trajan	2	(16)
Antiquity	4	(3)
The Middle Ages	7	(3)
The Renaissance	10	(5)
The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries	15	(3)
Archaeological Investigations in the Forum of Trajan	18	(34)
The Nineteenth Century	20	(6)
Later Excavations	26	(6)
The Twentieth Century	32	(15)
Recent Excavations	47	(5)
The Monuments South of the Basilica Ulpia	52	(18)
The Central Triumphal Arch	54	(4)
The Murus Marmoreus	58	(1)
The Lateral Arches	58	(2)
The Area Fori and the Equus Traiani	60	(1)
The East Colonnade and Hemicycle	60	(10)
The Monuments North of the Basilica Ulpia	70	(16)
The Peristyle Around the Column of Trajan	72	(2)
The Column of Trajan	74	(4)
The Bibliotheca Ulpia	78	(2)
The Colonnades of the Temple Precinct	80	(3)
The Temple of the Deified Trajan	83	(3)
PART II RESTORING THE BASILICA ULPIA
Essays of Reconstruction in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries	86	(58)
Jean Baptiste Ciceron Lesucur	88	(3)
Angelo Uggeri	91	(4)
Prosper-Mathieu Morey	95	(7)
Fjodor Richter	102	(6)
Luigi Canina	108	(12)
Julien Guadet	120	(12)
Giuseppe Gatteschi	132	(4)
Italo Gismondi	136	(2)
Carla Maria Amici	138	(3)
The Restorations of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Problems and Proposed Solutions	141	(3)
A New Restoration of the Basilica Ulpia	144	(20)
The South Facade	146	(7)
The Interior	153	(1)
The Nave	154	(1)
The Second Order	154	(6)
The Roof and Ceiling of the Nave	160	(2)
The Apses	162	(2)
PART III CONCLUSIONS
Building Trajan's Forum	164	(8)
Techniques of Design and Layout	166	(1)
Site Preparation and Construction	166	(6)
Concept and Meaning in the Architecture of the Forum of Trajan	172	(20)
The Origins of the Plan	174	(1)
The Proportions of the Plan	174	(6)
The Characteristics of the Architecture	180	(7)
Architecture as Propaganda	187	(5)
AFTERWORD	192	(26)
The U.C.L.A./Getty Museum Computer Model	193	(1)
A New Computer Model	193	(25)
Selected Bibliography with Abbreviations	218	(8)
Index	226