Architecture building ancient rome colosseum 5. It may take a little while for pinterest to crawl the original wallpaper so reload the pinterest page if the wallpaper is shown as broken in pinterest. Ancient roman architecture adopted the external language of classical greek architecture for the purposes of the ancient romans but was different from greek buildings becoming a new architectural style. The colosseum or coliseum latin. The colosseum is one of the greatest feats of roman architecture ever built.
Amphitheatrum flavium is perhaps the grandest construction in the history and culture of ancient rome. Why was the colosseum built. However the romans were also great innovators and they quickly adopted new construction techniques used new. When the famous amphitheater the colosseum was built in ancient rome it had an area of 620 by 523 feet 189 by 159 meters making it the largest amphitheater of its time.
While the circus was used for chariot races and was significantly larger the colosseum was used for various blood. Colosseo also known as the flavian amphitheatre latin. The building of the ancient roman colosseum was widely regarded as a political move of the time intended for entertaining and possibly more importantly distracting romes population from more serious issues of the time such as oligarchy nepotism and corruption in the senate and church hmmm some things dont. 1 the colosseum was the second and largest permanent amphitheatre built within the city of rome.
The colosseum is a massive and architecturally complex structure. Architecture building ancient rome colosseum hd wallpaper to download the original wallpaper save it to your pinterest board and then download it from pinterest. The construction of the colosseum the largest and most popular ancient roman monument began during the reign of emperor vespasian in 72 ad. The two styles are often considered one body of classical architectureroman architecture flourished in the roman republic and even more so under the empire when the great majority of.
Roman architecture continued the legacy left by the earlier architects of the greek world and the roman respect for this tradition and their particular reverence for the established architectural orders especially the corinthian is evident in many of their large public buildings.