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Capitoline Hill
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Capitoline Hill or Capitol, highest of the seven hills of ancient Rome, historic...side of the square is the Palazzo dei Conservatori, on the other, the Capitoline Museum. Both buildings now house collections of antiquities. In the...
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forum
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Forum extended into a marshy valley from Capitoline Hill along the Palatine Hill. When...their speeches. Beyond them, toward Capitoline Hill, were temples, among them the...Constantine to the valley between the Capitoline and Quirinal. On the southeast were...
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Venus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Venus of Medici or Medicean Aphrodite (Uffizi); the Venus of Capua (national museum, Naples); and the Capitoline Venus (Capitoline Mus., Rome). The Venus of Milo is a Greek statue in marble, generally dated to the 2d or 1st cent. BC...
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Neoclassicism
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...to the creation of Europe's first public museums, the Capitoline and the Pio-Clementino, which prominently featured canonical antiquities such as the Apollo Belvedere, the Capitoline Venus, and the Laoco ö n. These ancient marble...
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Michelangelo Buonarroti
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...demonstrates Michelangelo's free approach to structural form. The Capitoline Square, designed by Michelangelo during the same period, was located on Rome's Capitoline Hill. Its shape, more a rhomboid than a square, was intended to counteract...
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Roman art
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...realism in Roman Italy at the end of the republic and the beginning of the empire ( Orator, Museo Archeologico, Florence; Capitoline Brutus, Conservatori, Rome.). After the conquest of Greece (c.146 BC), Greek artists settled in Rome, where they...
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Minerva
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...of Etruscan origin, she was worshiped in various parts of ancient Rome, most notably with Jupiter and Juno in the great Capitoline temple. Her temple on the Aventine Hill was a meeting place for skilled artisans, actors, and writers. She was identified...
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cella
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...of the building, instead of being kept entirely within free-standing colonnades. The cella was generally a single chamber, but there were sometimes two chambers, or even three, as in the temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill.
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bronze sculpture
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Examples of Etruscan artisans' work include a bronze chariot found at Monteleone (Metropolitan Mus.) and the celebrated Capitoline Wolf (Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome). The Romans took quantities of bronze statues from Greece and made thousands themselves...
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Rome, Architecture in
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...great sculptor turned architect was also responsible for the restructuring of the Campidoglio, the civic center atop the Capitoline Hill, close by the Tabularium and Forum Romanum of the ancient city. Beginning in 1539, the work was carried out in phases...
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