HISTORY OF ROMAN ARCHITECTURE

COLLOSEUM No.1

• The columns of the ground floor are the Doric, the first floor are Ionic, the second floor are Corinthian and the top of floor are Corinthian pilaster.

  This composition influenced later age very much. You should notice that the composition is vartical, not horisontal. The vartical dimention is different from horizontal one nor vartical space is not homogeneous, so that the style of columns shoud be different.

  But now, Space Age, it changes a little. You can find architectures which are homogeneous vartically, free from gravity on earth.

[COLLOSEUM No.2]

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