{"id":13357,"date":"2014-06-30T20:49:03","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T19:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=13357"},"modified":"2014-06-30T20:49:03","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T19:49:03","slug":"images-of-vanished-rome-the-septizonium-and-the-meta-sudans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2014\/06\/30\/images-of-vanished-rome-the-septizonium-and-the-meta-sudans\/","title":{"rendered":"Images of vanished Rome : the Septizonium and the Meta Sudans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ste. Trombetti has been busily searching the online site of the Spanish National Library, and posting the results on Twitter.<\/p>\n

First of these is a view of the Septizonium, the vanished facade of the Palatine, built by Severus at the end of the Appian Way and demolished in the 16th century for materials to build New St Peter’s basilica.\u00a0 This shot is particularly valuable, as it is more or less end-on, from the south, and shows the main structure consisted of two parallel walls, connected at intervals, with the facade on the front.\u00a0 It can be found here<\/a>\u00a0(click to enlarge):<\/p>\n

\"Italian,<\/a>
Italian, Anon. 1530-40?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Next up is an old photograph of the Colosseum, with a particularly nice image of the Meta Sudans, the fountain just inside the arch of Constantine.\u00a0 Its from here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"Vista<\/a>
Vista Panoramica (1858-65)?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A detail shows the fountain clearly:<\/p>\n

\"meta_sudans\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The same view is shown in an older drawing by Isidro Velazquez, made between 1792-96.\u00a0 Note that in this drawing the Meta Sudans is perceptibly taller, and appears to have a second stage atop the first.\u00a0 It’s from here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"Velasquez,<\/a>
Velasquez, Colosseum with Meta Sudans<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another image from the same period is an anonymous Spanish\u00a0painting, “Anfiteatro Flavio, detto il Coloseo”, 1790-99.\u00a0 Here too the Meta Sudans appears taller, and with a bulbous top.\u00a0 From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"Amphitheatro<\/a>
Amphitheatro Flavio (1790-99)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Very interesting to see and compare!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ste. Trombetti has been busily searching the online site of the Spanish National Library, and posting the results on Twitter. First of these is a view of the Septizonium, the vanished facade of the Palatine, built by Severus at the end of the Appian Way and demolished in the 16th century for materials to build […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[453,1122,1509],"class_list":["post-13357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-my-diary-announcements","tag-colosseum","tag-meta-sudans","tag-septizonium"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}