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XIV. Ruins of the Temple of Vespasian and Temples of Hercules Victor
from Remembering the End of Eternity: 19th Century Architectural Mementos of Ancient Ruined Rome, 2021
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XIV. Ruins of the Temple XIV. temple of vespasian and temples of hercules victor
i. Temple of Vespasian, 4-1/2”h., c. 1880, tinted alabaster ii. Temple of Hercules Victor, 3”h., c. 1880, alabaster iii.Temple of Hercules Victor, 2-3/4”h., c. 1880, tinted alabaster vi. Temple of Hercules Victor, 2-3/4”h., c. 1890, alabaster
See Pricing. Among the pleasures of hand wrought architectural mementos is that the identical monument may be rendered in so many different ways. Here, with these three models of the Temple of Hercules Victor, popularly called the Temple of Vesta, are buildings of differing sizes, propostions, number of columns, openings and materials. These simple souvenirs also illustrate our minds’agility; the slenderest architectural conceits – column, roofs, simple geometry conspiring to remind of the grandest places.
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