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Temple of Vesta, Tivoli

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visited the temple and made drawings which he used as comparative examples in his lectures. His 1805 design for a corner of the Bank of England in London became known as 'Tivoli Corner'. Other examples in England include
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The "Temple of Vesta" has provided a model for numerous structures. These range from orthodox replicas in landscaped gardens to variants using only some aspects of its detailing.
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The name of the builder or restorer of the Temple of Vesta is Lucius Gellius, memorialized in the inscription on the
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and plan as well as carefully rendered details of the carved capitals and the frieze. in the following century both
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as a church, "Santa Maria della Rotonda". The Christian accretions had already disappeared in the 16th century.
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In northern California, a version of the temple was set as a landscape feature in the English tradition. The "
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to mark the spot in California's Sunol Valley where the waters came together to supply
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Les édifices antiques de Rome dessinés et mesurés très exactement par A. D. architecte
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The temple's capitals have been much admired and imitated and their variation of the
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Drawing of a 19th-century "Tivoli order" capital, reconstructing those of the temple
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hero of the city, or to Gellia Gens as mausoleum (their villa was upthere), or to
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Roberto Piperno, "Giuseppe Vasi's Digression - Tivoli - part one: the Roman town"
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that surrounds the cella had eighteen Corinthian columns (ten remain standing).
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It is not known for certain to whom the temple was dedicated, whether to
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Careful measured drawings of the 'Temple of Vesta" were published by
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Perhaps the earliest example in England is the Temple of Venus at
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The comparatively good condition of the temple is owing to its
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sometimes called the "Tivoli order". They have two rows of
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Soane's 1805 design for the Bank of England, painted by
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made etchings and engravings of the "Temple of Vesta".
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Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich

Roman temple
tholos
Tivoli, Italy
Aniene

Corinthian order
acanthus leaves
abacus
fleurons
hibiscus
Hibiscus syriacus
flutes
frieze
swags
bucrania
rosette
cornice
modillions
Villa Gregoriana
Hercules
Tiburtine Sibyl
eponymous
Vesta
Temple of Vesta
Roman Forum
architrave
peripteral

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