Roman Interiors“Rome was not built in a day”

Presented by

Prathyusha

INTRODUCTION

Ancient Roman architecture adopted certain aspects of Ancient Greek architecture.

The Romans were indebted to their Etruscans neighbors.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY

Etruscans River Tiber

PHYSICAL CONDITIONS

Etruscans worshipped many gods. They had belief one has to live the life as per divine will.

Roman’s obtained suitable earth for making terracotta.

They invited a new order of architecture namely the Tuscan order.

CHARACTERISTICS FEARTURES:-

The roman followed the columnar and trabeated styled of Greek and also adopted Etruscan’s Arch and vault.

The use of lime concrete was started in roman period.

Barrel

Vault Column with Entablature

TYPE OF VAULTS

Circular vault Cross vault

Hemispherical valut

TYPES OF ORDERS

Doric

Ionic

Doric order

Ionic order

Corinthian order

Composite order

Tuscan order

The Acanthus Leaf and Stalk

Corinthian Composite

Tuscan

PROPORTIONING OF ROMAN CLASSIC ORDERS:

Name of Roman order

Height of column in terms of lower

diameter

Height of entablature in terms of lower

diameter

Doric 8 2

Ionic 9 2 ¼

Corinthian 10 2 ½

Composite 10 2 ½

Tuscan 7 1 1/3

AMPHITHEATER AND BATHS

Baths

of

Caracalla

Atrium and per style, House of the Silver Wedding, Pompeii.Entry view into the domes, 1st Century CE

SECULAR BUILDING IN ROME

FIRST CENTURY FORUM AND BASILICA

ROMAN INTERIOR

Stools

Tables

ROMAN ANCIENT CHAIRSch

FURNISHING:

Stucco ceiling

Wall painting