Pompeii : its life and art / tr. into English by Francis W. Kelsey ... with numerous illustrations from original drawings and photographs.

  • August Mau
Date:
1902
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    shape of the acanthus leaves is not that characteristic of the pre-Roman period. It is therefore most probable that the temple was built, or at any rate was com- pleted, in the early years of the colony. The vaults in the podium [p. 67] : Not. d. scavi, 1900, pp. 341-344- CHAPTER IX. THE BASILICA Excavation (1813-18(6) : Fiorelli, Pomp. ant. hist., vol. i, pt. 2, p. 86, pt. 3, pp. 111-179 passim; vol. 2, p. 13. Inscriptions: C. I. L. X. 805-807. IV. pp. 113-125. Decoration: Mau, Geschichte der dec. VVandmalerei, pp. ir-17. Reconstruction: Mau, Rom. Mitth., vol. 3 (1888), pp. 14-46, vol. 6 (1891), pp. 67-71, vol. 8 (1893), pp. 166-171; cf. also WOLTERS, Das Chalcidicum der Pompejanischen Basilica, Rom. Mitth., vol. 3 (1888), pp. 47-60. Equal height of main room and corridor was first assumed by Mazois (Les mines de Pompei, vol. 3, pis. 17, 18), afterward by Mau (Pomp. Beitrage, pp. 156-199). A clerestory was added by Canina (Architettura Antica, vol. 3, pi. 93), and by Lange (Haus und Halle, Leipzig, 1885. pp. 351-372). Schoene (Nissen, Pomp. Studien, pp. 198-201) assumes an equal height for the large columns and the half-columns, with a gallery above the corridor. The Basilica Porcia [p. yo] : Huelsen, Rom. Mitth., vol. 8 (1893), pp. 84, 91. Other references on the Roman basilicas: Huelsen, Nomenclator topo- graphicLis (Kiepert and Huelsen, Formae urbis Romae antiquae, Berlin, 1896), pp. 13-14- The Basilica at Fano [p. 71] : Vitr. V. 1. 6-10; Prestel, Des M. Vitru- vius Pollio, Basilica zu Fanum Fortunae (Strassburg, 1900). Reconstruc- tion: Viollet-le-Duc, Entretiens sur Parchitecture (2 vols. Paris. 1863, 1872), vol. I, pp. 150-157, and Atlas, pi. 8-10; translation of vol. i by van Brunt (under the title Discourses on Architecture, Boston, 1873), pp. 144- 149 and pis. 8-10. Literature relating to the origin of the Christian basilica : Dehio and von Bezold, Die kirchliche Baukunst des Abendlandes, vol. i (Stuttgart, 1892), pp. 62-63, and Lowrie, Monuments of the Early Church (New York, 1901), pp. 420-421 ; cf. also Holtzinger, Die altchristliche und byzantinische Baukunst (Stuttgart, 1899; in Durm's Handbuch der Architektur), pp. 19-25; Kraus, Realencyclopadie der christl, Alterthiimer (2 vols., Freiburg, 1882-1886), vol. I. under Basilica; Lange, Haus und Halle (Leipzig, 1885), pp. 270-326; F. Witting, Die Anfange christlicher Architektur (Strassburg, 1902). CHAPTER X. THE TEMPLE OF APOLLO Excavation (1817-1818), remains^ restoration : Fiorelli, Pomp. ant. hist., vol. i, pt. 3, pp. 191, 203-210, vol. 2. pp. 9, 69, vol. 3, pp. 9-16; Cell, Pompeiana (Edit. 3, by Cell and Gandy, London, 1852), pi. 53-54 ; Mazois,