The Theater of Marcellus, from the Piazza Montanara by 1858 Robert Macpherson British, Scottish Like geological strata laid bare to reveal the earth's development, the walls of the Theater of Marcellus bear witness to the various transformations of the ancient Roman monument. Begun by Julius Caesar and completed about 12 by Augustus, despoiled in the fourth century, fortified in the eleventh, and converted into a palace in the sixteenth, the theater housed apartments and the shops of artisans by the mid-nineteenth century. Macpherson's photograph presents the antique theater in fragmentar
The Theater of Marcellus, from the Piazza Montanara by 1858 Robert Macpherson British, Scottish Like geological strata laid bare to reveal the earth's development, the walls of the Theater of Marcellus bear witness to the various transformations of the ancient Roman monument. Begun by Julius Caesar and completed about 12 by Augustus, despoiled in the fourth century, fortified in the eleventh, and converted into a palace in the sixteenth, the theater housed apartments and the shops of artisans by the mid-nineteenth century. Macpherson's photograph presents the antique theater in fragmentary form, partially shrouded in shadow--less a field for archaeological investigation than for philosophical meditation on the weight of history on the lives of Rome's modern The Theater of Marcellus, from the Piazza Montanara. Robert Macpherson (British, Tayside, Scotland 1811–1872 Rome). by 1858. Albumen silver print from glass negative. Photographs
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