Reconstruction of a Segment of the UNESCO World Heritage Hadrian’s Villa Tunnel Network by Integrated GPR, Magnetic–Paleomagnetic, and Electric Resistivity Prospections [PDF]
Hadrian’s Villa is an ancient Roman archaeological site built over an ignimbritic tuff and characterized by abundant iron oxides, strong remnant magnetization, and elevated magnetic susceptibility.
Annalisa Ghezzi +9 more
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Entering the Emperor’s Villa: an integrated methodology to enrich cognitive accessibility of an archaeological site [PDF]
The monumental entrance to the Imperial Villa at Tivoli, built by Emperor Hadrian (117-138 AD), is a part of the famous Palace that is currently inaccessible, even though it can be partially explored visually.
Silvia Bertacchi, Benedetta Adembri
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Ruin lust in George Gissing's Veranilda
Abstract Ruinenlust (‘ruin lust’) or ruin aesthetics is a prominent feature of George Gissing's unfinished historical novel, Veranilda (1904), which is set in sixth‐century Italy and contains many memorable images of ruins. Drawing on the work of Georg Simmel, Rose Macaulay, Brian Dillon, and others, this article argues that, by examining these images ...
Gareth A. Reeves
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Walking, and Knowing the Past: Antiquaries, Pedestrianism and Historical Practice in Modern Britain
Abstract How do those who write history know the past? This article addresses this question by examining the work of late eighteenth‐ and nineteenth‐century antiquaries, whose historical practice was closely tied to their embodied experience of the places about which they wrote.
PAUL READMAN
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Ancient Art and the Eighteenth‐Century Auction: Collecting, Catalogues and Competition
Abstract This article explores the role of the auction in the formation and dispersal of collections of ancient art in late‐eighteenth‐ and early‐nineteenth‐century Britain. I demonstrate that competitive collecting, as well as the culture of acquiring and fragmenting collections at auction, had a profound effect on the way in which British buyers ...
Nicole Cochrane
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The Bioclimatic design of Hadrian’s Villa [PDF]
URL del artículo en la web de la Revista: https://www.upo.es/revistas/index.php/romula/article/view/7965E’ noto come l’architettura antica fosse progettata in stretta relazione con il contesto ambientale di inserimento (clima, venti), e come gli elementi
Renzoni, Cristina
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The Geometric Enigma of Small Baths at Hadrian’s Villa: Mixtilinear Plan Design and Complex Roofing Conception [PDF]
Starting from the late Domitian age, during Nero’s Empire and finally Hadrian’s principate, an increasing technological shift concerning both opus caementicium and centering work made it possible to build cupolas with unprecedented technical solutions ...
BERTACCHI, SILVIA +5 more
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The Maritime Theatre at Hadrian’s Villa and Its Decoration: Analysis, Interpretation, and Integration of Digital Models [PDF]
Maritime Theatre is one of the most iconic buildings of Hadrian’s Villa (UNESCO site since 1999). This circular-shaped “domus” is characterized by one of the most obvious aspects of Hadrianic architectural production, namely the alternation of curved ...
Benedetta Adembri +2 more
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Integral design at Hadrian’s Villa [PDF]
URL del artículo en la web de la Revista: https://www.upo.es/revistas/index.php/romula/article/view/7963Nell’ambito della monumentale letteratura prodotta con riferimento al sito imperiale tiburtino, la divulgazione di studi su peculiari caratteri ...
Cinque, Giuseppina E.
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VARIABLE LEVEL OF DETAIL IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL 3D MODELS OBTAINED THROUGH A DIGITAL SURVEY
This paper focuses on the use of information technologies in the field of archaeological representation. It is part of a series of studies on the Villa Adriana in Tivoli which have led us to investigate the decoration of the Maritime Theatre (Emperor ...
Filippo Fantini
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