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The Colosseum or Coliseum, also known as the Flavian Amphitheatre, is an oval amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, situated just east of the Roman Forum. Built of travertine, tuff, and brick-faced concrete, it is the largest amphitheatre ever built. Having an average audience of some 65,000, it was used for entertainment in the early medieval era. The Colosseum was later reused for such purposes as housing, workshops, quarters for a religious order, a fortress and also a quarry.
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The head dates from the late 2nd or early 3rd century AD (making it about 1,800 years old) and the body is slightly older. The face looks careworn, with deep lines in the forehead, between the eyes and beside the nose and mouth, seeming to suggest a man of heavy responsibility. The statue was bought by the 4th Earl.
HENRY Howard, the 4th Earl of Carlisle, was obviously a man with a taste for exotic things.
In 1738, having recently inherited Castle Howard from his father, the 3rd Earl, he embarked on a 12 month Grand Tour of Italy.
Henry was a wealthy man in his 40s, with time on his hands. He'd been to Italy once before. But this time, he was determined to 'do' the Grand Tour properly. His journey turned into a 12 month cultural odyssey and shopping expedition.
He bought a huge range of antique statues and sculptures - many of them Roman marbles - as well as bronzes, coins and medals and some contemporary 18th century marble sculptures.
Henry returned to Castle Howard at the end of 1739 and over the next decade a flood of treasures arrived in Yorkshire from Italy. The Earl used them to decorate the inside of his Vanbrugh-designed stately home: assembling a collection that was considered exceptional for its size and importance even by the extravagant standards of the times.
Henry's son Frederick, the Fifth Earl, inherited his father's taste for collecting, and returned from his own Continental travels with yet more treasures. And there at Castle Howard these treasures remained, for generation after generation - a corner of Rome and of Italy in the heart of rural Yorkshire.
But the 20th century proved financially difficult for many of Britain's great country estates - and Castle Howard was no exception. Some artworks were sold at the end of the 19th century; more were sold by family trustees in 1944.
In 2015, meanwhile, Nicholas Howard - who took over the day-to-day running of the great house in 2014 from his younger brother Simon - announced that £10million worth of artworks would be sold at auction to secure the 'long term future' of the estate.
In 2017 a collection of 62 Roman sculptures and antiquities and 27 later eighteenth century pieces, many of which had been collected by the 4th and 5th Earls on their Grand Tours almost 300 years earlier, had been 'saved for the nation' in a £5.4 million tax deal brokered by the Arts Council.
Under the deal, made under the Arts Council's 'Acceptance in Lieu' scheme and signed off by Culture Secretary Karen Bradley, ownership of the pieces passed to the National Museums Liverpool in return for the settling of £5.4 million of an inheritance tax bill. The pieces will remain on display at Castle Howard.
Edward Harley, chairman of the Arts Council's Acceptance in Lieu Panel which negotiated the deal, says the collection is of 'great art-historical and archaeological importance'. More than that, it sheds unique light on the nature of the Grand Tours so enjoyed by the British upper classes in the 18th and 19th centuries - and on their determination to gather the world's treasures and bring them back to Britain.
"The collection's continued display at Castle Howard ensures it will ... be able to (continue to) tell the story of two great eighteenth-century collectors," Mr Harley said.
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The theatre was 111 m in diameter and was the largest and most important theatre in Ancient Rome; it could originally hold between 11,000 and 20,000 spectators. It was an impressive example of what was to become one of the most pervasive urban architectural forms of the Roman world. The theatre was built mainly of tuff, and concrete faced with stones in the pattern known as opus reticulatum, completely sheathed in white travertine. However, it is also the earliest dateable building in Rome to make use of fired Roman brick, then a new introduction from the Greek world. (source Wikipedia)
I thought some of you might be interested in how the facade was constructed.
1) Brackets with clips, in which the wands perfectly fit.
2) On the Snot-side of the bracket a jumperarch, followed by a swivel-plate-hinge, with doorrail-plates and tiles as covering.
3) Facade built by such elements shifted to each other.
In theory, this was easy - arranging these single and shifted parts to each other, which had only 5° or 10° on the real model was a real real pain...
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I was invited to participate in the 2nd emptyROM. 10 photographers/social media types in the Royal Ontario Museum before it opens.
Playing in an empty museum is a dream come true.
White fine-grained marble.
First half of the 2nd century CE.
Inv. No. 6017
Naples, National Archaeological Museum
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