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Location Rome, Italy   map
Date 81   timeline
Building Type triumpal arch, gateway
 Construction System cut stone masonry
Climate mediterranean
Context urban
Style Ancient Roman, Classical, Corinthian
Notes Corinthian pilasters at corners of great arch
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Discussion Arch of Titus Commentary

"The Arch of Titus, Rome, was erected after the emperor's death, to commemorate chiefly the capture of Jerusalem. It has a single opening flanked on each outer face by attached columns with early examples of the Composite capital. On the coffered soffit of the arch and the wall faces below it are reliefs of the emperor and spoils from the Temple in Jerusalem. The outside faces of the piers are exemplary nineteenth-century restorations undertaken as far back as 1821 after demolition of the fortification in which the arch had been incorporated in the Middle Ages. They make good what had been destroyed, without any attempt at deceit."

— Sir Banister Fletcher. A History of Architecture. p243, 246.

Address

In the western section of the Roman Forum.

Resources
Sources on Arch of Titus

Robert Adam. Classical Architecture. London: Penguin Books, 1990. ISBN 0-670-82613-8. NA260.A26 1990. section drawing, fig d, p152. plan drawing, fig d, p152. elevation drawing, fig d, p152.

Fritz Baumgart. A History of Architectural Styles. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970. NA204.B3513. LC 70-110283. elevation drawing, f44, p48. Bildarchiv Foto, Marburg.

James Stevens Curl. Classical Architecture: an introduction to its vocabulary and essentials, with a select glossary of terms. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1992. ISBN 0-442-30896-5. NA260.C87. exterior photo of Arch showing columnar and trabeated form merged with the arcuated principle, f2.68, p52.

Sir Banister Fletcher. A History of Architecture. London: The Butterworth Group, 1987. ISBN 0-408-01587-X. LC 86-31761. NA200.F63 1987. detail drawing of keystone, fig a, p245. discussion p243, 246.   The classic text of architectural history. Expanded 1996 edition available at Amazon.com

Dennis Sharp, ed. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Architects and Architecture. New York: Whitney Library of Design, an imprint of Watson-Guptil Publications, 1991. ISBN 0-8230-2539-X. photo, p181.

Doreen Yarwood. The Architecture of Europe. New York: Hastings House, 1974. ISBN 0-8038-0364-8. LC 73-11105. NA950.Y37. perspective drawing, f157, p70. detail drawing in elevation of composite order, f97, p43.

Kevin Matthews. The Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM. Artifice, 2001. ISBN 0-9667098-4-5.— Available at Amazon.com

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