. Rambles in Rome : an archæological and historical guide to the museums, galleries, villas, churches, and antiquities of Rome and the Campagna. by 1476. As many as 1600persons could, it is said, bathe in them at the same time. The baths,properly so called, were 1720 feet in length and 375 lA width, andthey were surrounded by pleasure-gardens, porticoes, a stadium, & reservoir was supplied by the Antonine aqueduct, whichcarried the water from the Claudian over the Arch of Drusus. Theprincipal entrance to the baths was from the Via Nova, one of thefavourite promenades of the ancient Eomaus
. Rambles in Rome : an archæological and historical guide to the museums, galleries, villas, churches, and antiquities of Rome and the Campagna. by 1476. As many as 1600persons could, it is said, bathe in them at the same time. The baths,properly so called, were 1720 feet in length and 375 lA width, andthey were surrounded by pleasure-gardens, porticoes, a stadium, & reservoir was supplied by the Antonine aqueduct, whichcarried the water from the Claudian over the Arch of Drusus. Theprincipal entrance to the baths was from the Via Nova, one of thefavourite promenades of the ancient Eomaus, made by the works of art discovered in the thermse may be mentionedthe Farnese Hercules, the Colossal Flora, the Farnese Bull, theAtreus and Thyestes, the Two Gladiators, and the Venus bronzes, cameos, bas-reliefs, medals, &c., found in the thermseare too numerous to mention. The urns in green basalt now in theVatican Museum, and the gianite basins of the Piazza Farnese,formerly belonged to the Baths of Caracalla. The baths remainedentue, both as regards their architecture and their internal decora-. BATHS OF CARACALLA. 278 RAMBLE VI. tioii, until the middle of the sixth ceutury, when the aqueducts weredestroyed by Yitiges. The portion of this series of main chambers, with which all theotheis ;ire connected, like the limbs of an organic body, was arotunda. The ojseii space at the foot of the Aventine was intendedfor a stadium. The games held in it could be viewed from the tiers ofseats, which rose, ns in a theatre, above the reservou-, still in exist-ence, on the declivity of the hill. From this the building was suppliedwith water, conveyed to the different points by means of an aqueduct. In order to attain a correct idea of the ground-plan, we mustproceed to the space in the centre, enclosed on the side towards theroad by a high wall furnished with window niches for the receptionof statues. This was the great swimming-bath, as is proved by thee
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