Ara Pacis Augustae

Aerial view June 2003. The Collegio degli Illirici  is at the top of this photo (its facade in shadow).  Next to it at the right, also in shadow, is the church of San Girolamo. The overpass  (its top in bright sun) connects them to San Rocco Augusto, with its dome.
At the right is the Museo dell'Ara Pacis under construction. This photo shows the small structure built to protect the Ara Pacis during construction of the museum.

Scanned from flicker
photo by malfalda59, 2003 June 22
Reproduced with appreciation.

Right (west) end of the entrance portico.

photo May 2010

Relief sculpture at right (west) end of portico, in powerful, characteristic Fascist era style.

photo May 2010

Looking through the 1941 overpass (top-lit in
the photo above) connecting the addition
to San Rocco, at the left, and the end of the
Collegio degli Illirici at the right.
The date "A XIX" on the pier, refers to the 19th year
of the Fascist Era, 1941. Above the date is a
simplified relief of fasces (the bundles of rods,
tied together around an axe with projecting blade,
carried by ancient Roman body guards).

More realistic, contempory Fascist images

of fasces can be seen at

http://www.reed.edu/ara-pacis/meier/

piazza-augusto-imperatore/fabbricato%20B1/
In the distance the statue of
S. Carlo Borromeo by A. Selva, 1940,
and the apse of San Carlo al Corso.

photo July-Oct. 2008

Left (east) end of the entrance portico.

photo May 2010

Relief sculpture at left (east) end of portico, in powerful, characteristic Fascist era style.

photo May 2010