It Took 36 Years For This Archaeologist To Make The Most Accurate Model Of Ancient Rome

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It Took 36 Years For This Archaeologist To Make The Most Accurate Model Of Ancient Rome




Architecture


ByAndželika

While the city of Rome has changed dramatically throughout history, many remains of the important historical monuments are still there to remind us of the glorious Ancient Rome. However, there’s a way to see how the most powerful city for over 1000 years looked like in the past.

More info: flickr.com | museociviltaromana.it

The Museum of the Roman Civilization which situated in Rome’s Esposizione Universale Roma district and stores one of the most impressive models of the city ever created.

It is known as the Plastico di Roma Imperiale, the plaster model which depicts the city of Rome in the 4th century AD at the time of Constantine I.

The intricate model was created by an Italian archaeologist Italo Gismondi. It was derived from the Forma Urbis Romae. The model is at a 1:250 scale and is made of plaster. Gismondi began working on it in 1935 and it took him more than 35 years to finish it.

That’s over three and a half times as long as it took to build the Colosseum. Today, the model is known as one of the most important references of Ancient Rome.

The model was commissioned by Mussolini to commemorate the birth of Augustus (63 BC). The choice to reconstruct the Ancient Rome of the 4th century was chosen not by accident. The reason behind it is that the city, during the time of Constantine (AD 306-337) the city reached its greatest size.

Gismondi had to use maps for this recreation and managed to match the empire’s scale on a ratio of one to one. Gismondi’s work is so detail-oriented that every part of the model lines up perfectly with the map.

The enormous, more than 200 meters long, model gives us the accurate visualization of the ancient city. It also allows people to test their knowledge of historic landmarks.

Can you spot the Colosseum? Or the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the Capitoline? Take a look at the photos of this detailed model and share which places you recognize in the comments below.

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It Took 36 Years For This Archaeologist To Make The Most Accurate Model Of Ancient Rome

 

[sosaa]

guess its tru when they say
rome wasnt built in a day

 

[Fade Runner 2049]

 

[Sukairain]

I could spend hours looking at that

@Trajan

 

[ORDER_66]

Man that could be done with google earth and a industrial 3D printer now..

 

[Rozay Oro]

That's ill

 

[King Khufu]

Nobody actually has pictures of how Ancient Rome looked, how could they actually know besides fancy guesses from whats already there?

 

[King Khufu]

These reconstructions kill me, the same people that give you white tuts and shyt give you these landscape concept arts and pass it off as authentic history. Nobody has that kind of authenticity because nobody actually alive has witnessed it without having artifacts to ACCURATELY make these depictions on!

First of all, Rome was bigger than all that so to make the city that small is inaccurate. They cannot distinguish the difference between times of Roman empires so what period of ancient Rome does this depict? This is nothing more than 'revisionist' modernizing a huge chunk of history into "derp, errmm rome?"

 

[ORDER_66]

Nobody actually has pictures of how Ancient Rome looked, how could they actually know besides fancy guesses from whats already there?

This is ancient rome tho... EDIT: I also believe there are probably a ton of architecture drawings, maps and layout of rome for him to create it like that... 36 Years is a long time he probably had to do block by block...

 

[Freedman]

These reconstructions kill me, the same people that give you white tuts and shyt give you these landscape concept arts and pass it off as authentic history. Nobody has that kind of authenticity because nobody actually alive has witnessed it without having artifacts to ACCURATELY make these depictions on!

First of all, Rome was bigger than all that so to make the city that small is inaccurate. They cannot distinguish the difference between times of Roman empires so what period of ancient Rome does this depict? This is nothing more than 'revisionist' modernizing a huge chunk of history into "derp, errmm rome?"

From the article

the plaster model which depicts the city of Rome in the 4th century AD at the time of Constantine I.

It was derived from the Forma Urbis Romae.

The Forma Urbis Romae or Severan Marble Plan is a massive marble map of ancient Rome, created under the emperor Septimius Severus between 203 and 211.

 

[TL15]

I can't imagine what it's like to go 36 years without sex

 

[419scam]

Dope, ancient rome was also criminal af. If you had a little more money than the rest you had to hire bodyguards just to move outside, otherwise you got robbed and/or killed with the quickness

 

[Doobie Doo]

I can't imagine what it's like to go 36 years without sex

What makes you think he wasn't fuking nerdy bittches that's into that shyt?

 

[Rozay Oro]

These reconstructions kill me, the same people that give you white tuts and shyt give you these landscape concept arts and pass it off as authentic history. Nobody has that kind of authenticity because nobody actually alive has witnessed it without having artifacts to ACCURATELY make these depictions on!

First of all, Rome was bigger than all that so to make the city that small is inaccurate. They cannot distinguish the difference between times of Roman empires so what period of ancient Rome does this depict? This is nothing more than 'revisionist' modernizing a huge chunk of history into "derp, errmm rome?"

Not a bad point

 

[Sukairain]

I can't imagine what it's like to go 36 years without sex

breh it's just a job like any other, except dude probably got paid a lot more than an average white collar worker