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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWelcome to the Post Election Friday Afternoon Challenge, DUers! Today: “Reinventing Rome.” *
The architecture of Rome has had enduring influence on many later structures in other countries. Here are 5 examples of the original edifices and their reinventions for you to identify.
And, as always, please play fair...
*Special thanks/credit to Professor Kathleen Curran, Trinity College, for the fine lecture that inspired this Challenge!
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CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Suich
(10,642 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)I totally enjoy your Friday quizzes, CTYankee, but I really really suck at them!
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)hfojvt
(37,573 posts)and 2b sorta could be the Lincoln Memorial?
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)joined in for this major booboo on my part, which I discovered late last night.
hfojvt
(37,573 posts)close, but no cigar
edit, that is one hell of a link, I guess others will have to google for themselves
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)5b: the July Column in the Place de la Bastille in Paris
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)(tricolour flags make it definitely one or the other; process of elimination)
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)it's similar to the US Capitol, and to the dome of St Paul's in London, and to dozens of other cathedrals and state capitol buildings on more or less the same pattern...looking closer that looks like a cross, though, so I'll guess it's a cathedral, at least.
Edit: and the French tricolour is visible on the left side of the column at the top hanging from the railing.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)Grand Central Terminal?!
No, silly me, but it's a train station in grand style.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)surrealAmerican
(11,362 posts)It looks soooo familiar.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Starboard Tack
(11,181 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)The real Penn Station, the one demolished in 1962. Unbelievable! Still a shocking crime against history & architecture.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Starboard Tack
(11,181 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)wickerwoman
(5,662 posts)1a. Not sure
1b. Monticello
2a. The Pantheon?
2b. Part of the Library of Congress- is that where the Constitution is kept?
3a. St Peter's Basillica?
3b. National Cathedral?
4a. Don't know
4b. Don't know
5a. Trajan's Column
5b. Looks like Paris- not sure of the name of the column though
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)and GOOD for you!!!
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CTyankee
(63,912 posts)JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)It's the Forum in Rome? Was it really that tall? (Yeh, I guess the Pantheon was that tall, why not the Forum.)
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)Well, no, I don't know but that's a BIG bath house!
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)So I thought that anyone who got Old Penn Station could also find the connection to this particular Roman Bath...
JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)instead of one single google search:
roman bath house penn station
Leading to:
[Penn Station] Main Waiting Room, modeled after the Roman baths of Caracalla
http://pennstationdoc.com/pennstationdoc.com/Story.html
So it's the Roman baths of Caracalla!
Lazy people (as I've proven to be) let Wikipedia do the talking:
The Baths of Caracalla (Italian: Terme di Caracalla) in Rome, Italy were Roman public baths, or thermae, built in Rome between AD 212 and 216, during the reign of the Emperor Caracalla. Chris Scarre provides a slightly longer construction period 211-217 AD.[1] They would have had to install over 2,000 tons of material every day for 6 years in order to complete it in this time period. Records show that the idea for the baths were drawn up by Septimius Severus, and merely completed or opened in the lifetime of Caracalla.[2] This would allow for a longer construction timeframe. They are today a tourist attraction.
*snip*
The baths remained in use until the 6th century when the complex was taken by the Ostrogoths during the Gothic War, at which time the hydraulic installations were destroyed.[3] The bath was free and open to the public. The building was heated by a hypocaust, a system of burning coal and wood underneath the ground to heat water provided by a dedicated aqueduct. It was in use up to the 19th century. The Aqua Marcia aqueduct by Caracalla was specifically built to serve the baths. It was most likely reconstructed by Garbrecht and Manderscheid to its current place.
In the 19th and early 20th century, the design of the baths was used as the inspiration for several modern structures, including St George's Hall, Liverpool and Pennsylvania Station in New York City. At the 1960 Summer Olympics, the venue hosted the gymnastics events.
See the bolded sentence? How much futher along are we?
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)I didn't get THAT much!
I'll post answers later...just got back from the Yale Bowl watching Yale lose ignominiously once again this season...
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)2b. SHOULD be this:
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My apologies for the screw-up!
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Bucky
(54,038 posts)The legacy and the ultimate fate of the Roman Republic served as an inspiration and a looming caveat to the Founding Fathers. Washington consciously crafted his image after Cincinnatus. They all warned posterity against Caesarism. James Madison was convinced a Gracchus-like demagogue would come along and upset the apple cart if the elites (he called them "First Characters" ever became too stratified & corrupt. Jefferson expected a revolution to occur every generation. You can't understand the early American republic without understanding Rome.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Republic," that discussed just this concern: that of the republic ending up an empire. The Louisiana Purchase was Jefferson's idea of forestalling this occurrence with extension through land acquisition what could not be overcome in time. He was right, of course, the Republic did become an empire. We studied the period of time between the ratification of the Constitution and the Jackson era, roughly 50 years.
There was also a concern at that time with what was happening in Europe with the rise of Napoleon. And rightly so, given his success in taking over so much of the Continent.
This was also a very interesting time in our society with regard to social history of that time. Their notions about virtue and self control (that included a successful temperance movement (of particular interest because of the Industrial Revolution) and even the fertility rates!