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UOMAX ARCHITECTUEE.
Paet 1.
beautiful details of which have been already alluded to and described.
This temple was octastyle in front. It was raised on a stylobate 22 ft.
in height, the extreme width of which was 98 ft., and this corresponds
as closely as possible with 100 Roman ft. The angular columns were
85 ft. from centre to centre. The height of the pillars was 48 ft., and
that of the entablature 12 ft. 6 in.1 It is probable that the whole
height to the apex of the pediment was nearly equal to the extreme
width, and that it was designed to be so.
The pillars certainly extended on both flamks, and the temple is
generally restored as peristylar, but apparently without any authority.
From the analogy of the other temples it seems more probable that
there were not more than eight or ten pillars on each side, and that
the apse of the cella formed the termination opposite the portico.
The temple nearest to this in situation and style is that of Jupiter
Tonans.2 The order in this instance is of slightly inferior dimensions
to that of the temple just clescribed, and of very inferior execution.
The temple, too, was very much smaller, having only six columns in
front, and from its situation it could not well have had more than that
number on the flanks, so that its extreme dimensions were probably
about 70 ft. by 85.
The third is the Temple of Mars Ultor, of which a plan is annexed ;
for though now as completely clecayed as
the other two, in the time of Ant. Sabacco
and Pallaclio there seem to have been
sufiicient remains to justify an attempt at
restoration. As will be seen, it is nearly
square in plan (112 ft. by 120). The
cella is here a much more important part
than is usual in Greek temples, and
terminates in an apse, which afterwards
became characteristic of all places of
worship. Behincl the cella, and on each
Cresy’s * Rome.’) Scaie side, was a lotty screen ot walls ancl
100 ft. to 1 m. arches, part of which still remain, and
form quite a new adjunct, unlike anything hitherto met with attached
to any temple now known.
The next class of temples, called pseudo-peripteral (or those in
1 Tliese dimensions, witli all tkose that
follow,unless otherwise speoified,are taken
froru Taylor and Gresy’s ‘ Arckitectural
Antiqrutiesof Rome,’ London, 1821. They
seem more to he depended upon than any
others I am acquainted with.
2 These two temples, like almost all the
otliers of Rome, have recently been re-
naraed by the Roman or rather German
antiquaries. The Jupiter Tonans is now
the Temple of Saturn, and the Jupiter
Stator is decreed to have been the Temple
of Castor and Pollux. The names by
whicli they are currently known has been
adhered to, as the architecture is of more
importance here tlian the arcliasology.
UOMAX ARCHITECTUEE.
Paet 1.
beautiful details of which have been already alluded to and described.
This temple was octastyle in front. It was raised on a stylobate 22 ft.
in height, the extreme width of which was 98 ft., and this corresponds
as closely as possible with 100 Roman ft. The angular columns were
85 ft. from centre to centre. The height of the pillars was 48 ft., and
that of the entablature 12 ft. 6 in.1 It is probable that the whole
height to the apex of the pediment was nearly equal to the extreme
width, and that it was designed to be so.
The pillars certainly extended on both flamks, and the temple is
generally restored as peristylar, but apparently without any authority.
From the analogy of the other temples it seems more probable that
there were not more than eight or ten pillars on each side, and that
the apse of the cella formed the termination opposite the portico.
The temple nearest to this in situation and style is that of Jupiter
Tonans.2 The order in this instance is of slightly inferior dimensions
to that of the temple just clescribed, and of very inferior execution.
The temple, too, was very much smaller, having only six columns in
front, and from its situation it could not well have had more than that
number on the flanks, so that its extreme dimensions were probably
about 70 ft. by 85.
The third is the Temple of Mars Ultor, of which a plan is annexed ;
for though now as completely clecayed as
the other two, in the time of Ant. Sabacco
and Pallaclio there seem to have been
sufiicient remains to justify an attempt at
restoration. As will be seen, it is nearly
square in plan (112 ft. by 120). The
cella is here a much more important part
than is usual in Greek temples, and
terminates in an apse, which afterwards
became characteristic of all places of
worship. Behincl the cella, and on each
Cresy’s * Rome.’) Scaie side, was a lotty screen ot walls ancl
100 ft. to 1 m. arches, part of which still remain, and
form quite a new adjunct, unlike anything hitherto met with attached
to any temple now known.
The next class of temples, called pseudo-peripteral (or those in
1 Tliese dimensions, witli all tkose that
follow,unless otherwise speoified,are taken
froru Taylor and Gresy’s ‘ Arckitectural
Antiqrutiesof Rome,’ London, 1821. They
seem more to he depended upon than any
others I am acquainted with.
2 These two temples, like almost all the
otliers of Rome, have recently been re-
naraed by the Roman or rather German
antiquaries. The Jupiter Tonans is now
the Temple of Saturn, and the Jupiter
Stator is decreed to have been the Temple
of Castor and Pollux. The names by
whicli they are currently known has been
adhered to, as the architecture is of more
importance here tlian the arcliasology.