Monumentality in Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture: Ideology and Innovation

摘要

This volume is a collection of papers derived from a 2009 colloquium on Etruscan and early Roman monumentality organized to mark the retirement of Ingrid Edlund-Berry from the University of Texas at Austin. Monumentality was a central theme in both Etruscan and early Roman architecture, and the origins of this commitment to colossal scale, as well as its related decoration, symbolic meanings, and necessary technologies, is a topic that lies at the foundation of the development of later Roman architecture. The subject of monumentality is not purely tectonic in nature; as Bruce Trigger has argued, the universality of monumental-ism in the architecture of complex societies can be understood through its enduring reflection of power over materials, specialized skills, and mass labor by patron elites. The most successful contributions to Monumentality in Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture address this relationship between architecture and its social and political structures.