The destruction of ancient Rome : a sketch of the history of the monuments . at while the renovation of the seventeenthcentury was without excuse and had no redeemingfeature, Augustus and his friends did, at least, substi-tute masterpieces of Greco-Roman construction, of thepurest type, for the earlier structures of brick orrough stone. This change may best be studied, perhaps, in theso-called temple of the Mater Matuta in the ForumBoarium, afterwards the church of S. Stefano delle Carozze, now S. Mariadel Sole, in the PiazzaBocca della we see the stonesteps leading to thestone cel
The destruction of ancient Rome : a sketch of the history of the monuments . at while the renovation of the seventeenthcentury was without excuse and had no redeemingfeature, Augustus and his friends did, at least, substi-tute masterpieces of Greco-Roman construction, of thepurest type, for the earlier structures of brick orrough stone. This change may best be studied, perhaps, in theso-called temple of the Mater Matuta in the ForumBoarium, afterwards the church of S. Stefano delle Carozze, now S. Mariadel Sole, in the PiazzaBocca della we see the stonesteps leading to thestone cella of the time ofCamillus, covered, butnot entirely concealed,by the marble stepsand the marble cella ofthe time of Augustus(Fig. 3). In excavat-ing strata of rubbish ofthe time of Augustus,T. r? ^ t • . 14. *^ such as the platform of Fig. 4. — Fragment of painted terra cotta ^ antefix from the temple of Jupiter Optiraus the Gardens of Maece-nas, or that of the Capi-tolium, w^e have actually picked up fragments fromtemples of the time of the Kings, dumped there with. TRANSFORMATION OF REPUBLICAN ROME 13 other materials to raise the level of the ground. Suchare the antefixes of painted terra cotta from the templeof Jupiter Optimus Maximus, now in the Palazzode Conservatori,! and theroof-tiles from another shrineon the Esquiline, in theMuseo Municipale al Celio.^In the early centuries ofRome sacred edifices were
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