Like all of your wonderful lectures, this one is superb. Alas, most of the graphics are of such low resolution as to be almost unviewable. Higher resolution images, would make this video so much more beneficial -- and enjoyable.
The initial map of the extent of the roman empire has one region marked as Iberia (Spain). There is no reason to have spain stated there, ignoring the older sovereign country, Portugal.
In the last lecture I watched on classical architecture, the instructor kept saying “periphteral”, which I couldn’t find in architectural dictionaries anywhere. Eventually, after two hours of researching it, I figured out that she meant “peripteral”, but when she spoke it, she was combining it with “peripheral”. It starts with the sounds periP, as the instructor here says properly, not periF. I lost some confidence in her lecture after that error, if she couldn’t say it, did she really understand it?
That last comment is new to me and intriguing--the overthrow of Constantinople by the Ottomans in 1453 dispersed Byzantine scholars and helped spark the Italian Renaissance.
Really enjoyed both this and part 1, thank you! My one minor note would be that you didn't mention the significant role that Hellenistic and especially Ptolemaic Alexandrian architecture played in the development of certain architectural forms which are often erroneously credited to the Romans. For example unfluted columns, half-columns, arched entablatures, broken pediments (and other baroque shapes) and the types of pilasters you described were definitely already a thing in Ptolemaic architecture, as was the combination of dentils and modillions in the same entablature. Podiums and pedestals can also be observed in Alexandrian scenes from Pompeian and Herculanean frescoes. The straight ionic capital shape was already in use in the early Hellenistic period and not a Roman invention (see, for example, the votive monument of Ptolemy II in Olympia). Axially arranged enclosures developed in Ptolemaic architecture probably inspired by local Egyptian examples but I don't know whether the Romans adapted this convention from Alexandria or developed it independently. The Alexandrian contribution to classical architecture is unfortunately often overlooked because so few remains of the Hellenistic city have survived to the modern day. And, of course, Vitruvius never visited Alexandria so its architectural conventions are absent from his work.
Like all of your wonderful lectures, this one is superb. Alas, most of the graphics are of such low resolution as to be almost unviewable. Higher resolution images, would make this video so much more beneficial -- and enjoyable.
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How many man hours would it take to construct the average stone structure?
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The initial map of the extent of the roman empire has one region marked as Iberia (Spain). There is no reason to have spain stated there, ignoring the older sovereign country, Portugal.
Wonderful lecture thank you so much
In the last lecture I watched on classical architecture, the instructor kept saying “periphteral”, which I couldn’t find in architectural dictionaries anywhere. Eventually, after two hours of researching it, I figured out that she meant “peripteral”, but when she spoke it, she was combining it with “peripheral”. It starts with the sounds periP, as the instructor here says properly, not periF. I lost some confidence in her lecture after that error, if she couldn’t say it, did she really understand it?
That last comment is new to me and intriguing--the overthrow of Constantinople by the Ottomans in 1453 dispersed Byzantine scholars and helped spark the Italian Renaissance.
There is something very pleasing about the diastyle intercolumniation, perhaps the 2:3 ratio.
Really enjoyed both this and part 1, thank you! My one minor note would be that you didn't mention the significant role that Hellenistic and especially Ptolemaic Alexandrian architecture played in the development of certain architectural forms which are often erroneously credited to the Romans. For example unfluted columns, half-columns, arched entablatures, broken pediments (and other baroque shapes) and the types of pilasters you described were definitely already a thing in Ptolemaic architecture, as was the combination of dentils and modillions in the same entablature. Podiums and pedestals can also be observed in Alexandrian scenes from Pompeian and Herculanean frescoes. The straight ionic capital shape was already in use in the early Hellenistic period and not a Roman invention (see, for example, the votive monument of Ptolemy II in Olympia). Axially arranged enclosures developed in Ptolemaic architecture probably inspired by local Egyptian examples but I don't know whether the Romans adapted this convention from Alexandria or developed it independently. The Alexandrian contribution to classical architecture is unfortunately often overlooked because so few remains of the Hellenistic city have survived to the modern day. And, of course, Vitruvius never visited Alexandria so its architectural conventions are absent from his work.
The image of the hypaethral building does show a roof, though.
The peristasis is roofed but the naos area is open to the sky.
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"units we still use today" haha no XD
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