And you should be struck immediately, as you
look at this plan with its open rectangular space,
with its, with its a pool here in the
center, with the columns going all the way around.
With an entrance way in the front, with projecting columns on that facade.
With a series of niches, that are
alternating segmental and rectangular with again, the library
located in that uppermost part, with other rooms
forming a kind of wing on either side.
This should remind you without any question, of this.
And what is this? [SOUND]
>> Sam. [COUGH]
>> The Forum of Peace. >> The Forum Pacis,
the Forum of Peace, or the Templum Pacis, of Vespasian, in Rome.
So once again, and it is a near clear duplicate.
Even though this is a library, and this is a temple or a forum,
although we talked about the fact that,
we weren't absolutely sure, how this was used.
It may have been used as a kind of museum in Rome for the
spoils and other works of art that
the Spatians and the Flavians wanted to display.
But once
again, we are looking that the influence does not flow
only from Greece to Rome, but from Italy to Greece.
And in this case, they are also using as a model
for the Library of Hadrian, an important building type in Rome.
They're using it, you know, perhaps for, in a different way but nonetheless
they are using almost that exact plan, [COUGH] for this second century building.
And I show you here, a model of the Library of Hadrian
in Athens.
[COUGH] Where we see that it was planted with greenery.
The library was located in the back.
There was a fairly conventional entrance-way,
looking like a typical Greek temple.
But then, these columns that project in front of
the wall, the statuary on top, looking very much
like the Forum Transitorium, which you'll remember bordered the
Forum Pacis in Rome, and that probably was also something,
that they were looking at.
And here creating, this is as far as the Greeks go, to creating
one of these, you know, undulating walls
with the re-, projecting and receding elements.
It's not, it's still fairly conservative, but nonetheless they've injected
a little motion here, using the traditional vocabulary of architecture.
And here we see a view of the wall of that facade what survives of it, today.
The wall is made
out of white pentelic marble, and the columns are made
of a slightly, I don't know if you can see it
from where you sit, but a slightly greenish tinged marble,
that comes from a place called, in Greece called Karystos, Karystos.
So again, this interest in varied marbles, varied marbles that
come only from the very rich quarries that Greece has.
Therefore, they did not have to go anywhere else
to get high quality marble, and to get marble of a wide, wide variety of colors.
