File:Roman cities in Italy and Dalmatia (1910) (14753801456).jpg

Identifier: romancitiesinita00frot (find matches)
Title: Roman cities in Italy and Dalmatia
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923
Subjects: Cities and towns, Ancient Cities and towns -- Italy Architecture, Roman Italy -- Antiquities Dalmatia (Croatia) -- Antiquities
Publisher: New York, Sturgis & Walton Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
Spalato, Detail of Court (Wlha)
Text Appearing After Image:
Si^alato (near), Aqueduct Plate Lvi THk pfEW YORF PUBLIC L^BrIrt ROMAN CITIES 317 at the Lateran and Vatican. It has perhaps thebest preserved cella of any temple in existence,so we can overlook its small size and rough finishand the loss of its portico. The basement isquite high and rather throws the building out ofscale. The decoration of the doorway is almostover rich, but the proportions are so effective asto exclude any barocco effect. The traditionwhich makes of it a temple of Esculapiusseems to be baseless and not earlier than thethirteenth century. The thunderbolts on thecorbels and the eagles seem to me good reasonsfor calling it a temple of Jupiter. This is quitea logical inference, because Jupiter was Diocle-tians patron: his epithet was Jovius in thesame w^ay as that of his colleague )\Iaximian wasHerculeus. After Diocletians death the pal-ace was called Jovense. The photograph of the tunnel-vault w^hichcovers the cella shows a perfect example of richcoffered vaulting, bet

Note About Images