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URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE & ROMAN RENEWAL DURING THE AUGUSTAN AGE

URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE & ROMAN RENEWAL DURING THE AUGUSTAN AGE. Jess Neubelt & David Ornvold “I left Rome a city of marble, though I found her a city of bricks.”--Augustus. Divergent Approaches. Jess:

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URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE & ROMAN RENEWAL DURING THE AUGUSTAN AGE

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  1. URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE& ROMAN RENEWAL DURING THE AUGUSTAN AGE Jess Neubelt & David Ornvold “I left Rome a city of marble, though I found her a city of bricks.”--Augustus

  2. Divergent Approaches • Jess: • Augustus used art, architecture, civil engineering and a bit of calculated delegating together in order to repair the city’s infrastructure, expose the populous to a unified pictoral program that increased accessibility and clarity of his values, and perpetuated his legacy alongside those of his heroes and models. • Dave: • Augustus enhanced the strength of the Roman empire and quality of Roman life through conscious development of public space, while respecting the historical importance of both previous patrons and architectural design.

  3. Propaganda “Education efforts or information used by an organized group that is made available to a selected audience for the specific purpose of making the audience take a particular course of action or conform to a certain attitude desired by the organized group.” -Evans 1992, 1. Literacy and architecture

  4. Rome Before Augustus • Progressing steadily toward a state of total disrepair. • Short terms of politicians inhibit long term solutions. • Civil wars • Patronage

  5. Agrippa as Aedile • Curation of the City • “Agrippa agreed to be made aedile, and without taking anything from the public treasury repaired all public buildings and all streets, cleaned out the sewers and sailed through them underground to the Tiber.” Dio. 49.43 • Aqueducts • Glory still gained by Augustus

  6. Forum Augustum • Public Buildings as Reflections of Empire: • “In the prefatory dedication of his work to Augustus, Vitruvius succinctly defined the purpose of public buildings as enhancing, through their auctoritas, the grandeur of the empire (maiestasimperii). The Augustan culmination of this idea was his forum.” Galinsky 1996, 197 • Exedras Portraying Family and SummiViri: • The “most honored the memory of those citizens who raised the Roman people from small beginnings to their present glory; which was why…he raised statues to them, wearing triumphal dress, in the twin colonnades of his Forum” Suet. Aug. 31

  7. Mars the Avenger • Venus Genetrix and Divus Julius flank Mars • Augustus (in chariot) facing Temple to Mars • Adjoining Forum Julium • Permanent proximity of father and son • Public/Political Nature of the Space

  8. Temple to Apollo • Historical Importance • Romulus and first settlement • Location, the Gaze • “Amid the matte surfaces of Rome, sparkling marbles reflected simultaneously the buildings of Augustus and the patron himself. Apollo, god of light, guided the actions of the princeps; together they envisioned a gleaming capital city as the manifestation of a new, sparkling golden age.” Favro 1996, 186.

  9. Malleability of Apollo • New to Roman pantheon of deities; polysemiotic • Association with Actium and victory • Portico of the Danaids

  10. Via Flaminia • Road into Rome via Campus Martius • Less crowded, wide, straight • Clear Augustan narrative • Mausoleum, horologium, arapacis, renovated Theatre of Pompey, arches…

  11. Rebuilding the Theatre of Pompey • Significance of the Theatre • Politically, historically and socially • Implications of Renovations

  12. “Adorn this capital with utter disregard of expense and make it magnificent with festivals of every kind. For it is fitting that we who rule over many people should surpass all men in things, and brilliance of the sort also tends in a way to inspire our allies with respect for us and our enemies with terror.” –Dio 52.30

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