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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Architecture, Etruscan.
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Architecture, Etruscan. |
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Architecture, Roman -- Italy, Central.
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Architecture, Roman. |
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ARCHITECTURE -- History -- Prehistoric & Primitive. |
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Italy -- Italy, Central. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Festschriften.
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Festschriften.
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| Added 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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| Other Form: |
Print version: Monumentality in Etruscan and early Roman architecture. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2012 9780292738881 (DLC) 2011048877 (OCoLC)766608647 |
| ISBN |
9780292738898 (electronic book) |
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0292738897 (electronic book) |
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9780292738881 |
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0292738889 |
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