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Title	ARCH OF TITUS
View	View of the horses
Notes	memorial
Work Type	memorial arch triumphal arch gateway monument relief
Style/Period	Ancient Roman
Major Design Aspects	tripartite design
Elements & Spatial Types	engaged column Composite capital seven-branched candlestick menorah
Climate Type	Mediterranean
Country	Italy
City	Rome
Architectural Material	marble
Art Medium	pentelic marble
Structural System	bearing masonry
Patron	Emperor Domitian
Dates	81 AD
Century	1C AD
Photographer	Scott Gilchrist, Archivision
Date Photographed	9/30/1991
Subject Information	Erected in AD 81 by the Emperor Domitian in honor of the victories of his brother, Titus, and his father, Vespasian, in Judaea which ended in the sack of Jerusalem and destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem in AD 70. The arch was restored in the 1823 by Valadier by order of Pius VII. Travertine was being used instead of the original pentelic marble to repair the damaged portions. / 'The Arch of Titus, Rome, was erected after the emperor's death, to commemorate chiefly the capture of Jerusalem. It has a single opening flanked on each outer face by attached columns with early examples of the Composite capital. On the coffered soffit of the arch and the wall faces below it are reliefs of the emperor and spoils from the Temple in Jerusalem. The outside faces of the piers are exemplary nineteenth-century restorations undertaken as far back as 1821 after demolition of the fortification in which the arch had been incorporated in the Middle Ages. They make good what had been destroyed, without any attempt at deceit.' Source: Sir Banister Fletcher. A History of Architecture. p243, 246
Credit Line	Archivision Inc. (all images copyright Scott Gilchrist / Archivision.com)
Collection Title	Archivision (architecture, urban design, gardens, landscapes and public art)
Collection information	Collection administered by the Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library, (402) 472-1193

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