{"id":8050,"date":"2011-12-22T14:57:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T14:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=8050"},"modified":"2011-12-22T14:57:05","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T14:57:05","slug":"du-peracs-1575-picture-of-the-ruins-of-the-septizodium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2011\/12\/22\/du-peracs-1575-picture-of-the-ruins-of-the-septizodium\/","title":{"rendered":"Du Perac&#8217;s 1575 picture of the ruins of the Septizodium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;ve posted before about the Septizodium (or Septizonium), an immense facade which ran across the front of the Palatine hill in Rome, in order to form a gateway for visitors coming up the Appian Way.\u00a0 It&#8217;s all\u00a0gone now, but parts of it still existed in Renaissance Rome, before being demolished for use as building materials.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Du Perac, in his collection of drawings of Rome in 1575, includes a picture of the remains of the Septizodium as he saw it.\u00a0 Click on the image for a larger picture.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8051\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8051\" style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/du_perac_vestigi_1575_Septizonium.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8051\" title=\"du_perac_vestigi_1575_Septizonium\" src=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/du_perac_vestigi_1575_Septizonium-1024x566.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"283\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8051\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Septizonium, 1575 (Du Perac)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What makes his image useful is that he gives a panorama &#8212; we can see how the\u00a0monument stood and looked, relative to the road outside the Palatine.\u00a0 The Circus Maximus is to the left, while the road running right today leads up to the Colloseum.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I think all of us have walked down this road, from the Colloseum on our way to the Circus Maximus and the Baths of Caracalla, so the Septizodium would have been on our right.\u00a0 I believe the modern pavement has a marking on it to show where it stood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The image is from Gallica.bnf.fr.\u00a0 I would hope that one day Du Perac&#8217;s book will appear online in a rather better quality image.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">UPDATE: I had not realised that Du Perac also includes a view of the remains of the Septizodium from the side\/rear, in a view of the Circus Maximus.\u00a0 But he does!\u00a0 Here\u00a0 it is &#8212; the Septizodium is on the right of the Palatine.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8054\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8054\" style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/du_perac_vestigi_1575_septizonium_rear.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8054\" title=\"du_perac_vestigi_1575_septizonium_rear\" src=\"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/du_perac_vestigi_1575_septizonium_rear-1024x574.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"287\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8054\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Circus Maximus, Palatine and Septizodium (Du Perac, 1575)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve posted before about the Septizodium (or Septizonium), an immense facade which ran across the front of the Palatine hill in Rome, in order to form a gateway for visitors coming up the Appian Way.\u00a0 It&#8217;s all\u00a0gone now, but parts of it still existed in Renaissance Rome, before being demolished for use as building materials. 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