Drawings, Prints, and 20th C. Photographs
1926 Rizzo
This major article records information from the 1903 excavation not previously published. Rizzo notes that he worked almost every day in the excavations of 1903 and reviews the evidence found. Of special importance, he includes the first published ground plan of the excavation, showing portions uncovered and the line at which the excavation was suspended. A number of important fragments recovered are illustrated for the first time in small but high quality photographs. Rizzo also includes the famous photograph of block III of the south processional frieze, including the figures of two flamines (fig. 13), photographed as discovered in the narrow passageway of the tunnel under the Via in Lucina, along the south side of the Piazza Fiano. This block was not excavated until 1937.
Scanned from Giulio Emanuele Rizzo, “Per la Ricostruzione dell" Ara Pacis Augustae”, in Capitolium, vol.2, no.8 (Nov. 1926), pp. 457-473. Reproduced with appreciation.
Captions are literal translations from the Italian (these 2 pages added August 2012).
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 P.457 -"Conjectural reconstruction, approximate, of the Ara Pacis Augustae (Architect Josef Durm)".
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 "Fig.1 - Plan of the Ara Pacis Augustae – Excavations of 1903".
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 "Fig. 2 - Graphic reconstruction of the fence – Inner side".
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 "Fig. 3 - Bronze coin of Nero, reproducing the enclosure of the Ara Pacis (enlarged 2 to 3 [as printed in Capitolium]). Naples, Museo Nazionale (Photography F. Lembo, Naples)". |
 "Fig. 4 – Fragment of the cornice (of the “altar”?). [enlarged] About 1 to 6 [as printed in Capitolium]). Rome, Museo Nazionale".
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 "Fig. 5 – Fragment of one of the “panels” of the west side (section B in fig. 12). Rome, Museo Nazionale".
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 "Fig. 6 – Fragment of one of the “panels” of the west side (section B1 in fig. 12). Venice: Private Collection". |
 "Fig. 7 – One of the “panels” of the west side (sections A-A1 in fig. 12). Rome, Museo Nazionale".
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