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Street Theater: Building Monumental Avenues in Roman Ephesus and Renaissance Florence
Comparative Studies in Society and History ( IF 1.016 ) Pub Date : 2018-12-28 , DOI: 10.1017/s0010417518000506
Garrett Ryan

Between the late first and the mid-third century CE, local elites in the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire lined the formerly utilitarian streets of their cities with honorific statues, colonnades, and ornamental buildings. The monumental avenues thus created have usually been interpreted as unplanned products of competitive munificence. This article, by contrast, suggests that the new streets had real political significance. It compares the monumental avenues of Roman Ephesus with a formal analogue from a better-documented historical context: the long, colonnaded courtyard of Florence's Uffizi complex, constructed by Duke Cosimo I in the mid-sixteenth century. Comparison with the Uffizi courtyard illuminates the prominence of “democratic” architectural conventions in Ephesian monumental avenues, the elite-centric vision of civic history implicit in their sculptural displays, and the degree to which public ceremonies reinforced their political messages.

中文翻译:

街头剧院:在罗马以弗所和文艺复兴时期的佛罗伦萨建造纪念碑大道

公元一世纪末至三世纪中叶,罗马帝国东部省份的当地精英在他们城市以前实用的街道两旁竖立着尊崇的雕像、柱廊和装饰性建筑。如此创建的纪念性大道通常被解释为竞争性慷慨的计划外产品。相比之下,这篇文章表明新街道具有真正的政治意义。它将罗马以弗所的不朽大道与来自更详细记录的历史背景的正式类似物进行了比较:佛罗伦萨乌菲齐建筑群的长柱廊庭院,由科西莫一世公爵于 16 世纪中叶建造。与乌菲齐庭院的对比,揭示了以弗所纪念大道上“民主”建筑惯例的突出地位,
更新日期:2018-12-28
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