Gruppo Archeologico Romano

Participate!   ---   Contact Ms. Anna Taggiasco, Gruppo Archeologico English Program, 06-39737703, for full program and fee schedule.

Rome Through the Centuries, Autumn 2001

Background material keyed to topics to be covered in the Rome Through the Centuries course of the English Programme of the GAR

Nicole Fuget        Wednesdays 10 AM      October 3 through December 5, 2001


Ms. Nicole Fuget (center) with Rome Through the Centuries participants at rooftop level in Ostia Antica.


Book Recommendation: Pilgrimage: A Chronicle of Christianity Through the Churches of Rome,  by June Hager, provides much useful information on Churches included in the Rome Through the Centuries itinerary.  It is Available in some local bookstores and through Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.
Amazon.com: Pilgrimage
Amazon.co.uk: Pilgrimage

Internet sites of general use to participants:
Ancient Rome -- Topographical Dictionary
Archeology Links
Architecture Links

Art History:

ART HISTORY RESOURCES ON THE WEB: Contents
ART HISTORY RESOURCES: Ancient Rome
Art History Webmasters ASSOCIATION
Gateway to Art History
Index of artists and architects
OCAIW: Orazio Centaro's Art Images Web
Thais.it -- sculpture, architecture, etc.
Vassari: Lives
World Wide Arts Resources
The Catholic Encyclopedia
Church/Religions Links
History Source books
IMAGES OF ROME
Indice Monumenti Antichi e Aree Archeologiche -- Roma
Jubilee Links
Literature and eTexts
Maecenas: Images of Ancient Greece and Rome
Medieval History Links
Mythology Links
Palaces of Rome - by Italian Tourist Web Guide
POPES -- Catholic Encyclopedia
Renaissance to Modern -- Teachernet

Roman Churches:

Rome Churches -- RomeTours
Rome Churches -- RomeGuide
Rome Churches -- Thayer
Basilicas and Churches - Italian Culture Net Links
Vitruvius on Architecture -- LacusCurtius
Western Civilization Links
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October 3:  Classical art through neo-classical eyes:  Winkelman
JJ Winckelmann
Winkelmann
Winckelmann -- xrefer (Oxford Dictionary of Art)
JJ Winckelmann -- CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA
Winckelmann -- Britannica
JJW portrait by Anton Von Maron (1768)
M.P.:  GAR, Via degli Scipione, 30/A
October 10:  Villa dei Quintili on the Appian Way -- Rome's largest suburban villa
Commodus arena and Villa Quintili -- Dis
Cassius Dio, Book 73 -- includes Commodus murder of the Quintilii (182AD)
Villa Dei Quintili -- Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma
Photoroma pix -- 675 through next two pages (use "avanti" links)
Il Parco dell'Appia Antica
Via Appia Antica from Cecilia Metella to Torre in Selci
CASALE DI ROMA VECCHIA
Roma Vecchia
Il quinto miglio della via Appia Antica
Access via ATAC Archeobus
M.P.:  Via Appia Nuova 1092 (fee)
October 17:  Around the Curia: the organization of the Roman state, from its foundation
Government in the Roman Republic and the Empire
Republican Roman Government
Polybius 6.11-18 -- Roman Republican Constitution
Polybius -- US Republic and the Roman Model
Organization -- Roman Republic
The Roman Constitution -- Society for Ancient Languages (UAH)
Numerous sources -- Halsall Sourcebooks: Rome
Gibbon, General Observations on The Fall -- Medieval Sourcebook
Structuring Roman History
Rome, Law - Government - Constitution -- About.com
M.P.:  in front of the Mamertine Prison
October 24:  Hypogeum of via Livenza and the Mausoleum of Lucillo Peto (fee)
Hypogea of Via Livenza -- Subterranean Rome
Ipogeo di via Livenza
Ipogeo in Via Livenza -- plan and picture
Ipogeo di Via Livenza --Comune Roma
Mausoleo, Lucilio Peto -- Comune Roma
VIA SALARIA Area del Mausoleo di Lucilio Peto
Cave of Villa Albani
M.P.:  Via Livenza 4
October 31:  Crypta Balbi -- Ancient and medieval Rome displayed together
Crypta Balbi: Tired of those same old Ancient Roman museums?
Crypta Balbi, Museo Nazionale Romano -- Comune Roma
CRIPTA -- Beniculturali.it
la Repubblica of the Arts
Theatrum Balbi -- Platner and Ashby Topo Dictionary
Crypta Balbi Mithraeum
Balbi Family web site
M.P.:  Crypta Balbi Museum -- Via delle Botteghe Oscure 31
November 7:  Rome from the time of Augustus and Agrippa

M.P.:  Piazza Rotunda, in front of the Pantheon
 

Transformation of Rome under Augustus -- lecture text
Although this site, unfortunately, does not provide links to the images that were to have accompanied the lecture, the text provides much useful information.
 Marmora Romana -- Roman Marble

Via Flaminia

LacusCurtius - The Via Flaminia
Ara Pacis
AUGUSTUS: IMAGES OF POWER (for Mausoleum and Ara Pacis)
LacusCurtius - The Ara Pacis Augustus
LacusCurtius ? Rodolfo Lanciani -Ara Pacis (1892)
Mausoleum of Augustus
The Mausoleum of Augustus
AUGUSTUS: IMAGES OF POWER (for Mausoleum and Ara Pacis)
Horologium
LacusCurtius ? Obeliscus Augusti (Platner & Ashby, 1929)
LacusCurtius - Pliny (Elder) on the Gnomen (Latin)
Stefano del Lungo on the horologium (Italian)
Pantheon
Pantheon -- about.com
Pantheon -- Great Buildings Online
Pantheon -- Maecenas
The Pantheon -- Rodolpho Lanciani
Agrippa Baths
Agrippa Baths -- Platner
Agrippa Baths model -- UCaen
Remnants of Baths -- overhead

November 14:  Isola Tiberina -- pagan and Christian

Overhead from Southeast
River, Bridges, and Island
Tiber island -- Virtual Roma
Tiber Island -- Platner
Bartholomew and Watermelon -- Nerone  Bartholomew -- legends
Isola Tiberina -- digilander
Old Prints to modern Photos - Digilander
Old to Modern Maps -- Digilander
T. Island Images -- Koskimies
M.P.:  Isola Tiberina, in front of the Church of S. Bartolomeo

November 21:  the newly reorganized National Museum at the Terme di Diocleziano

Piazza Termini -- tkw

Museo Nazionale at Terme di Diocleziano

Museo Nazionale Romano -- AbcRoma
Museo Nazionale -- Italycyberguide
Baths
Baths -- about.com
Baths Glossary
Roman Baths -- Smith's Dictionary
Cultural Notes: Baths
Roman baths -- Lacus Curtius
Rome City baths -- Lacus Curtius
100+ baths links -- Lacus Curtius
Baths, Diocletian -- Platner
Baths of Diocletian -- romaonlineguide
End Date 537AD--Goths cut aqueducts
Images/Plans
Baths of Diocletian -- Maecenas
Baths of Diocletian and S. Maria degli Angeli -- Koskimies
Baths (incl. plans) -- tkw
Baths plan(red) & modern streets(green)
Bath plans(black) & existing remains(red)
Existing remains(red), modern streets(green) & interposed structures(black, purple)
M.P.:  entrance of the Museum, Viale E. De Nicola 79 (fee)
November 28:  Outstanding figures of two "Doctors of the Church", Catherine of Sienna and Thomas Aquinas
Doctors of the Church -- CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA
DOCTORS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
Other Famous (but not "sanctified") Catholic Doctors
Medieval Sourcebook: Introduction

Catherine

St. Catherine of Sienna -- CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA
Catherine of Sienna -- bio sketch (Anglican)
ST CATHERINE OF SIENA, DOCTOR OF UNITY
Dialog of Catherine of Sienna -- English Translation
St. Catherine of Sienna -- Links
Catherine of Sienna -- scroll down for links & pix
Basilica of S. Caterina, Sienna -- Basilica web site
Her "Incorruptible" head -- Basilica of S. Caterina, Sienna
Anorexia and Catherine's Holiness
Holy Anorexia, Rudolph M. Bell -- Amazon.com: buying info
Thomas
Thomas Aquinas -- Catholic Encyclopedia
Thomas Aquinas  -- short bio and links
Aquinas - precis (IEP)
Thomism -- Jacques Maritain Center
Thomistic Philosophy -- aquinasonline
Thomas Aquinas and Big Bang Cosmology -- (Maritain Center)
Quantum Mechanics and  Nature -- (Maritain Center)
The Summa Theologica -- hyperlinked, full text
Aquinas Translation Project
Thomas Aquinas in English -- most on-line translations


M.P.:  Piazza della Minerva, in front of S. Maria Sopra Minerva

December 5:  Santa Maria Maggiore, including visits to the Sforza chapel and the Crib of Arnolfo di Cambio
Santa Maria Maggiore -- C. Nyborg
St. Mary Major -- giubileo.rai.it
Description. links to pictures
S. Mary Major -- Hager
S.Maria Maggiore -- Provincia.roma.it
S. Maria Maggiore -- Koskimies
Vasi and modern Images -- Romeartlover
P.za S Maria Maggiore -- Strange pan Image
Our Lady of the Snow -- CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA
Snow and Gold myths
Murillo paintings (Prado) and legend
Santa Maria Maggiore -- Nolli project (Princeton)
Giubileo: BASILICA S. MARIA MAGGIORE
S. Maria Maggiore -- Mathematical analysis
Dominican Iconography
Overhead views (note: Image # 3 is reversed)

Di Cambio Crib

Crib -- Giubileo.rai.it
Crib info
CHRISTMAS CRIB -- NERONE
Cribs history
M.P.:  Entrance to the Church


mmdtkw dean - wukitsch -- July/August 2001