"Lec 17 - Bigger Is Better: The Baths of Caracalla and Other Second- and Third-Century Buildings in Rome" Roman Architecture (HSAR 252) Professor Kleiner discusses the increasing size of Roman architecture in the second and third centuries A.D. as an example of a "bigger is better" philosophy. She begins with an overview of tomb architecture, a genre that, in Rome as in Ostia, embraced the aesthetic of exposed brick as a facing for the exteriors of buildings. Interiors of second-century tombs, Professor Kleiner reveals, encompass two primary groups -- those that are decorated with painted stucco and those embellished primarily with architectural elements. After a discussion of the Temple of the Divine Antoninus Pius and Faustina and its post-antique afterlife as the Church of S. Lorenzo in Miranda, Professor Kleiner introduces the Severan dynasty as it ushers in the third century. She focuses first on the Arch of Septimius Severus in the Roman Forum, the earliest surviving triple-bayed arch in Rome. She next presents the so-called Septizodium, a lively baroque-style façade for Domitian's Palace on the Palatine Hill. The lecture concludes with the colossal Baths of Caracalla, which awed the public by their size and by a decorative program that assimilated the emperor Caracalla to the hero Hercules. 00:00 - Chapter 1. A Brick Tomb for Annia Regilla on the Via Appia 17:44 - Chapter 2. Second-Century Tomb Interiors in Rome 24:42 - Chapter 3. The Tomb Of the Caetennii in the Vatican Cemetery 36:31 - Chapter 4. The Temple of Antoninus Pius and Faustina the Elder in the Roman Forum 46:21 - Chapter 5. The New Severan Dynasty and The Parthian Arch in the Roman Forum 01:01:59 - Chapter 6. Biggest Is Best: The Baths of Caracalla in Rome
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Lec 1 - Introduction to Roman Architecture
Lec 2 - It Takes a City: The Founding of Rome and the Beginnings of Urbanism in Italy
Lec 3 - Technology and Revolution in Roman Architecture
Lec 4 - Civic Life Interrupted: Nightmare and Destiny on August 24, A.D. 79
Lec 5 - Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous: Houses and Villas at Pompeii
Lec 6 - Habitats at Herculaneum and Early Roman Interior Decoration
Lec 7 - Gilding the Lily: Painting Palaces and Villas in the First Century A.D.
Lec 8 - Exploring Special Subjects on Pompeian Walls
Lec 9 - From Brick to Marble: Augustus Assembles Rome
Lec 10 - Accessing Afterlife: Tombs of Roman Aristocrats, Freedmen, and Slaves
Lecture 11 - Notorious Nero and His Amazing Architectural Legacy
Lec 12 - The Creation of an Icon: The Colosseum and Contemporary Architecture in Rome
Lec 13 - The Prince and the Palace: Human Made Divine on the Palatine Hill
Lec 14 - The Mother of All Forums: Civic Architecture in Rome under Trajan
Lec 15 - Rome and a Villa: Hadrian's Pantheon and Tivoli Retreat
Lec 16 - The Roman Way of Life and Death at Ostia, the Port of Rome
Lec 18 - Hometown Boy: Honoring an Emperor's Roots in Roman North Africa
Lec 19 - Baroque Extravaganzas: Rock Tombs, Fountains, and Sanctuaries in Jordan, Lebanon, and Libya