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Under the direction of Prof. d'Espouy, the graduates of the famous Paris school of art, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, measured, rendered and shaded the views of the famous monuments of ancient Greece and Rome. These drawing were then reproduced by a 19th C. process called heliography. Machine translation of the original French narrative: The theater of Marcellus, of which there remains a part today buried several meters and enclosed in houses among the winding alleys of a popular district, rose between the Capitol and the Tiber. Its construction had been started by Caesar. Auguste finished it like almost all works undertaken by his adoptive father. He dedicated it to Marcellus, son of his sister Octavia, and inaugurated it in the year of Rome 741. (13 BC), on the occasion of his nephew's wedding with Julie. This monument, built in travertine, had three floors: one of Doric order, the other of Ionic order, the third of Corinthian; the latter was destroyed. It was the second theater permanent, built in Rome. Alexander Severus restored it. From the inside, there is nothing left, but you can get an idea of the arrangements presented by the building, thanks to a fragment of the precious map of Rome kept in the Capitol. In the middle Ages, the theater of Marcellus served as a fortress and belonged successively to the Pierleoni and the Savelli. This last family in the 16th century, had a large palace built on this site by the famous architect Baldassare Peruzzi, who took care of lift the plan of what was left, a plan that Serlio published. The Savelli died in 1712 and the theater of Marcellus became the owned by a branch of the Orsini family. Martin2001 Satisfaction Guaranteed Policy!
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