Innovation in Religious Roman Architecture
Innovation in Religious Roman Architecture
Throughout human history man has been finding ways of doing art and figuring different ways of doing over time, one such form of architecture that man has discovered long ago and has extensively worked hard in is the art of architecture. One of the definitions of “architecture” is the profession of designing, communities, open areas, and other artificial constructions and environments.[1] Architecture also involves the design or selection of furnishings and decorations of buildings.[2] Architecture has been used for various purposes; one such purpose it has been used for is for religious purposes, like buildings houses of worship. Among these great human civilizations that have constructed pieces of architecture, especially those of religious purposes, is the Roman civilization. Roman civilization has gone through many different changes, one such change can be seen in the innovations that have occurred in religious architecture. The evolution of Roman religious architecture is one of the best examples of seeing how human civilization can and does change in its form of art over a period of time. During the Ritual and Space period, which lasted from 800-600 B.C, the Romans had no empire of their own and would use ritual, which is a an art of action, but to the Romans it was used for another reason, which was architecture.[3] The Romans believed that rituals had the power to engender architectural form because of the fact that they took place in space.[4] The great rituals of the earliest Romans were that of the cultivation of the gods, the life of the family, and the ordering of the community.[5] Each of these rituals would also get a formation of space that were believed to suit to them.[6] The first Roman architects were no other than the Roman priests themselves who prayed, asked the gods for signs and made sacrifice.[7] To perform these rituals of worship they would frame the amount of space that would be needed
Throughout human history man has been finding ways of doing art and figuring different ways of doing over time, one such form of architecture that man has discovered long ago and has extensively worked hard in is the art of architecture. One of the definitions of “architecture” is the profession of designing, communities, open areas, and other artificial constructions and environments.[1] Architecture also involves the design or selection of furnishings and decorations of buildings.[2] Architecture has been used for various purposes; one such purpose it has been used for is for religious purposes, like buildings houses of worship. Among these great human civilizations that have constructed pieces of architecture, especially those of religious purposes, is the Roman civilization. Roman civilization has gone through many different changes, one such change can be seen in the innovations that have occurred in religious architecture. The evolution of Roman religious architecture is one of the best examples of seeing how human civilization can and does change in its form of art over a period of time. During the Ritual and Space period, which lasted from 800-600 B.C, the Romans had no empire of their own and would use ritual, which is a an art of action, but to the Romans it was used for another reason, which was architecture.[3] The Romans believed that rituals had the power to engender architectural form because of the fact that they took place in space.[4] The great rituals of the earliest Romans were that of the cultivation of the gods, the life of the family, and the ordering of the community.[5] Each of these rituals would also get a formation of space that were believed to suit to them.[6] The first Roman architects were no other than the Roman priests themselves who prayed, asked the gods for signs and made sacrifice.[7] To perform these rituals of worship they would frame the amount of space that would be needed