Roman Architecture Course

Lecture By Diana E E Kleiner | Roman Architecture Lecture 4 of 24 Description Professor Kleiner explores the civic, commercial, and religious buildings of Pompeii, an overview made possible only because of an historical happenstance–the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, which buried the city at the height of its development. While the lecture […]

By Diana E E Kleiner | Roman Architecture Lecture 3 of 24 Lecture Description Professor Kleiner discusses the revolution in Roman architecture resulting from the widespread adoption of concrete in the late second and first centuries B.C. She contrasts what she calls innovative Roman architecture with the more traditional buildings already surveyed and documents a

By Diana E E Kleiner | Roman Architecture Lecture 2 of 24 Lecture Description Professor Kleiner traces the evolution of Roman architecture from its beginnings in the eight-century B.C. Iron Age through the late Republican period. The lecture features traditional Roman temple architecture as a synthesis of Etruscan and Greek temple types, early defensive wall

By Diana E E Kleiner | Roman Architecture Lecture 1 of 24 Lecture Description Professor Kleiner introduces the wide variety of Roman buildings covered in the course and links them with the theme of Roman urbanism. The lecture ranges from early Roman stone construction to such masterpieces of Roman concrete architecture as the Colosseum and