 Theater of Marcellus in the Via del Teatro di Marcello, Rome  Theater of Marcellus by night. The Theater of Marcellus (Theatrum Marcelli) in Rome was named after Marcus Marcellus, Caesar Augustus' nephew who died five years before its completion. Space for the theater was cleared by Julius Caesar, who was murdered before it could be begun; the theater was so far advanced by 17 B.C. that part of the celebration of the ludi saeculares took place within the theatre, which was inaugurated in 13 B.C. by Emperor Augustus and completed in 11 BC. Jump to: navigation, search City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Left-Wing Democrats) Area - City Proper 1290 km² Population - City (2004) - Metropolitan - Density (city proper) 2,546,807 almost...
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For other usages see Theatre (disambiguation) Theater (American English) or Theatre (British English and widespread usage among theatre professionals in the US) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle — indeed...
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Secular games (Lodi Sæculares, originally Terentini). ...
The Theater of Marcellus could originally hold 15,000 spectators. It was an impressive example of what was to become one of the most pervasive urban architectural forms of the Roman world. The theater was built mainly of tufa, cement and opus reticulatum brickwork, completely sheathed in white travertine. The network of arches, corridors, tunnels and ramps that gave access to the interiors of such Roman theatres were normally ornamented with a screen of engaged columns in Greek orders: Doric at the base, Ionic in the middle and Corinthian above. Tufa is the name for an unusual geological formation. ...
In the general sense, a cement (Latin caementum) is any material with adhesive properties. ...
Travertine A carving in travertine Travertine, a natural stone, is a white concretionary form of calcium carbonate that is usually hard and semicrystalline. ...
The uncompleted Doric temple at Segesta, Sicily, has been waiting for finishing of its surfaces since 430 - 420 BC The Doric order was one of the three orders or organizational systems of Ancient Greek or classical architecture; the other two orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian. ...
Architects first real look at the Greek Ionic order: Julien David LeRoy, Les ruines plus beaux des monuments de la Grèce Paris, 1758 (Plate XX) The Ionic order forms one of the three orders or organizational systems of classical architecture, the other two canonic orders being the Doric and...
The Corinthian order as used for the portico of the Pantheon, Rome provided a prominent model for Renaissance and later architects, through the medium of engravings. ...
Like other Roman theaters in suitable locations, it had openings through which the natural setting could be seen, in this case the Tiber Island. The permanent setting, the scaena, also rose to the top of the cavea as in other Roman theaters. The Tiber Island (Italian: Isola Tiberina; Latin: Insula Tiberina) is a boat-shaped island in the southern bend of the Tiber river in Rome. ...
In Roman times the cavea were the subterranean cells in which wild animals were confined before the combats in the Roman arena or amphitheatre. ...
The name templum Marcelli still clung to the ruins in 998 [1].In the Early Middle Ages the Teatro di Marcello was used as a fortress of the Fabii and then at the end of the 13th century, by their heirs, the Savelli. Later, in the 16th century, the residence of the Orsini, designed by Baldassare Peruzzi, was built atop the ruins of the ancient theatre. The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ...
Fortifications (Latin fortis, strong, and facere, to make) are military constructions designed for defensive warfare. ...
For the racehorse named Fabius, please see Fabius. ...
The Orsini family was a powerful noble family in medieval and renaissance Rome, supplying three popes and many other leaders, and fighting with their rivals, the Colonna family, for influence. ...
Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi (7 March 1481—6 January 1537) was an architect and painter, born at Siena and died at Rome. ...
Now its surroundings are used as a venue for small summer concerts. 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
See also
The Forum Boarium was the cattle market of ancient Rome. ...
Great Synagogue in Rome The Great Synagogue of Rome (called Tempio Maggiore in Italian) was built shortly after the unification of Italy in 1807. ...
Santa Maria in Cosmedin is a church in Rome founded in the 6th century. ...
Jump to: navigation, search The Romans adopted the external language of classical Greek architecture for their own purposes, which were so different from Greek buildings as to create a new architectural style. ...
Roman theatre at Orange, France A Roman theatre is a theatre building built by the Romans. ...
External link - Samuel Ball Platner and Thomas Ashby, 1929. A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, (London: Oxford University Press).
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