Art Activities in Italy
1932; Volume: 4; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/15436314.1932.11467334
ISSN2325-5420
Autores Tópico(s)Historical and Religious Studies of Rome
ResumoIN Rome the most important event of recent years has been the final adoption of the revised city plan, with its ample provision for broad avenues of traffic through the central quarters, and a vast series of residential areas in the outskirts. The new Rome will be rich in air, sunlight and open spaces. With this administrative enactment there proceeds the clearing of the parts round about the Capitoline Hill, especially the Imperial Fora, the extensive vistas of which are now opening out, and the problem of the eventual systematisation and embellishment of the region of the Piazza Venezia. At the moment of writing, finds of importance are taking place in the area of Caesar's Forum, between it and the north-east corner of the Capitoline Hill, and also in the course of construction of the avenue which is to connect the Southern end of the Via Cavour with the valley of the Colosseum. Thus there is an abundance of fresh material to absorb the energies of the city's archaeological service, a department which is being ably directed by Dr. A. M. Colini. The systematisation of the northern parts of the Fora of Augustus and Trajan is now complete. We illustrate one of the newly recovered artistic treasures from the Forum of Trajan, a site which on former occasions has yielded portions of several types of frieze. The present example shows a Trajanic variation of the theme of Victories commemorating, by means of trophies and sacrifices, the military successes of which they were themselves the personifications. This theme received superb interpretation in V century Athens, in the parapet of the Nike bastion. The Mithraic relief reproduced, an excellent example of its particular type of religious monument, comes from the vicinity of the Circus Maximus.
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