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- Markets of Trajan
- c. 100
- different medium and style for different function
- concrete faced in brick for market
- post and lintel with marble for temple
- 150 shops (first malls)
- luxury complex brings good from all over into Rome
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- first roman colony founded 350 BC
- port town of Rome
- had a castrum plan but grew out of the forum
- capitolium (tall podium) frontal
- middle class Pompeii
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- Horrea of Epagathiana
- c. 125
- warehouse- very abundant in Ostia
- different colored bricks
- annona
- dolia - huge vase for storage put underground like a refrigerator
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- Arch of Trajan
- c. 120
- triumveral arch to peace
- single bay
- composite order columns
- victories in spandrels
- annona relief (annona coming into Ostia)
- Trajan handing out loaves of bread to people of the empire
- everyday life of citizen portrayed on imperial monument
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- Full length portrait of Trajan
- c. 100
- successful general
- adlo cutio pose
- similar to Augustus (wore armor) but Augustus wasn't general just wore armor to show diplomacy and pax romana bare feet symbolize godliness
- Trajan armor shows military victory and prosperity
- feet have the sandals of a Roman general
- not a great piece of art but shows him in typical general clothes
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- Anaglypha Trajani
- c. 120
- relief sculpture about debt relief
- his conquests have made him rich (iron, silver, gold, etc)
- kept inside the forum and contains in it the Rostra of Divine Julius Caesar, the basilica Julia, ceremonial fig tree, temple of Vespasian, and temple of concord
- has both eastern and western side of the forum
- has Trajan announcing the relief debt or Trajan sitting down giving out cash
- getting rid of tax debt, a great PR move and move for the people of Rome
- shows the burning of the records that contained the taxes owed by the people
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- Baths of Trajan
- c. 100
- conceived under Nerva and finished under Trajan
- 5 times bigger than baths of Titus
- precinct wall where non thermal activities take place
- palestra with garden
- physical cleaning is becoming a minor part of the building
- contains libraries
- relieving and flat arches
- bilateral symmetry around a central axis
- women/children morning bathing time
- men in afternoon
- central area was a huge lobby where people could gather and talk
- first time in imperial bath there is a nataio-swimming pool
- aqa traiana- Trajan built a special aqueduct for this building
- Apollodorus of Damascus was the architect
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- Forum of Trajan
- c. 100
- biggest gift to the city of Rome
- designed by Apollodorus of Damascus
- added this forum to Rome makes everything look whole and ordered
- digs up a 100ft hill so it all fits
- picks up from the forum of Augustus the hidden exedra (2 of them) and adds a 2 story building and 2 buildings behind that (2 libraries) and the column of Trajan
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