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Opus Mixtum
Example of ''opus mixtum'' in the substruction of France.html"_;"title="Brest_Castle,_France">Brest_Castle,_France_ ''Opus_mixtum''_(Latin:_"mixed_work"),_or_''opus_vagecum''_and_''opus_compositum'',_was_an_Roman_architecture.html" "title="rance">Brest_Castle,_France_.html" ;"title="France.html" ;"title="Brest Castle, France">Brest Castle, France ">France.html" ;"title="Brest Castle, France">Brest Castle, France ''Opus mixtum'' (Latin: "mixed work"), or ''opus vagecum'' and ''opus compositum'', was an Roman architecture">ancient Roman construction technique. It can consist in a mix of ''opus reticulatum'' and at the angles and the sides of ''opus latericium''. It can also consist of ''opus vittatum'' and ''opus testaceum''. ''Opus mixtum'' was used in particular during the age of Emperor Hadrian Hadrian (; la, Caesar Trâiānus Hadriānus ; 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138. He was born in Italica (close to modern Santiponce in Sp ...
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Opus Compositum, Roman Theatre, Naples
''Opus'' (pl. ''opera'') is a Latin word meaning " work". Italian equivalents are ''opera'' (singular) and ''opere'' (pl.). Opus or OPUS may refer to: Arts and entertainment Music * Opus number, (abbr. Op.) specifying order of (usually) publication, and hence applied to collections as well as individual compositions * OPUS Records, a Slovak record label * Opus 111, a French classical record label bought by Naive Bands * Opus (Austrian band), an Austrian pop-rock group * Opus (Yugoslav band), a former Yugoslav progressive rock group * Opus III (band), an English electronic pop group * Pur (band), a German pop group originally known as "Opus" Albums * ''Opus'' (Opus album), 1987 album by Austrian band Opus * ''Opus'' (Schiller album), 2013 album by German music project Schiller * ''Opus'', a 2014 album by Jane Badler * ''Opus'' (Eric Prydz album), 2016 album by the electronic artist Eric Prydz ** "Opus" (Eric Prydz song), song from the eponymous album. * ''Opus'', a 2007 com ...
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Roman Architecture
Ancient Roman architecture adopted the external language of classical Greek architecture for the purposes of the ancient Romans In modern historiography, ancient Rome refers to Roman civilisation from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD. It encompasses the Roman Kingdom (753–509 ..., but was different from Greek buildings, becoming a new architecture, architectural style. The two styles are often considered one body of classical architecture. Roman architecture flourished in the Roman Republic and to even a greater extent under the Roman Empire, Empire, when the great majority of surviving buildings were constructed. It used new materials, particularly Roman concrete, and newer technologies such as the arch and the dome to make buildings that were typically strong and well-engineered. Large numbers remain in some form across the former empire, sometimes complete and still in use to t ...
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Opus Reticulatum
''Opus reticulatum'' (also known as reticulate work) is a facing used for concrete walls in Roman architecture from about the first century BCE to the early first century CE. Facings are a type of polygonal masonry used to apply a smooth finish to an opus caementicium’s core. They were built using small pyramid shaped tuff, a volcanic stone embedded into a concrete core.Vitr. ''De arch''. 2.8.1–4 Reticulate work was also combined with a multitude of other building materials to provide polychrome colouring and other facings to form new techniques. ''Opus reticulatum'' was generally used in central and southern Italy with the exception being its rare appearance in Africa and Jericho. This was because of tuff’s wider availability and ease of local transport in central Italy and Campania compared to other regions. Reticulate work developed in response to the advent of '' opus caementicium'' and its predecessor, ''opus incertum''. This was to accommodate both the new building mate ...
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Opus Latericium
250px, Example of ''opus latericium'' on a tomb of the ancient Appian Way in Rome.">Rome.html" ;"title="Appian Way in Rome">Appian Way in Rome. ''Opus latericium'' (Latin for "brick work") is an Ancient Rome, ancient Roman construction technique in which coarse-laid brickwork is used to face a core of ''opus caementicium''. ''Opus reticulatum'' was the dominant form of wall construction in the Imperial era. In the time of the architectural writer Vitruvius Vitruvius (; c. 80–70 BC – after c. 15 BC) was a Roman architect and engineer during the 1st century BC, known for his multi-volume work entitled '' De architectura''. He originated the idea that all buildings should have three attribut ..., ''opus latericium'' seems to have designated structures built using unfired mud bricks.Vitruvius ''De Architectura'' 2.8 http://latin.packhum.org/loc/1056/1/0#26 See also * * * References Roman construction techniques {{AncientRome-struct-stub ...
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Opus Vittatum
''Opus vittatum'' ("banded work"), also called ''opus listatum'', was an ancient Roman construction technique introduced at the beginning of the fourth century, made by parallel horizontal courses of tuff blocks alternated with bricks. Coarelli (1974), p. 340 This technique was adopted during the whole 4th century, and is typical of the works of Maxentius Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maxentius (c. 283 – 28 October 312) was a Roman emperor, who reigned from 306 until his death in 312. Despite ruling in Italy and North Africa, and having the recognition of the Senate in Rome, he was not recognized ... and Constantine. See also * * * * * * References Sources * Roman construction techniques {{architecture-stub ...
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Opus Testaceum
''Opus'' (pl. ''opera'') is a Latin word meaning "work". Italian equivalents are ''opera'' (singular) and ''opere'' (pl.). Opus or OPUS may refer to: Arts and entertainment Music * Opus number, (abbr. Op.) specifying order of (usually) publication, and hence applied to collections as well as individual compositions * OPUS Records, a Slovak record label * Opus 111, a French classical record label bought by Naive Bands * Opus (Austrian band), an Austrian pop-rock group * Opus (Yugoslav band), a former Yugoslav progressive rock group * Opus III (band), an English electronic pop group * Pur (band), a German pop group originally known as "Opus" Albums * ''Opus'' (Opus album), 1987 album by Austrian band Opus * ''Opus'' (Schiller album), 2013 album by German music project Schiller * ''Opus'', a 2014 album by Jane Badler * ''Opus'' (Eric Prydz album), 2016 album by the electronic artist Eric Prydz ** "Opus" (Eric Prydz song), song from the eponymous album. * ''Opus'', a 2007 compi ...
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Hadrian
Hadrian (; la, Caesar Trâiānus Hadriānus ; 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138. He was born in Italica (close to modern Santiponce in Spain), a Roman ''municipium'' founded by Italic settlers in Hispania Baetica and he came from a branch of the gens Aelia that originated in the Picenean town of Hadria, the ''Aeli Hadriani''. His father was of senatorial rank and was a first cousin of Emperor Trajan. Hadrian married Trajan's grand-niece Vibia Sabina early in his career before Trajan became emperor and possibly at the behest of Trajan's wife Pompeia Plotina. Plotina and Trajan's close friend and adviser Lucius Licinius Sura were well disposed towards Hadrian. When Trajan died, his widow claimed that he had nominated Hadrian as emperor immediately before his death. Rome's military and Senate approved Hadrian's succession, but four leading senators were unlawfully put to death soon after. They had opposed Hadrian or seemed to threaten ...
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Jublains Archeological Site
The Jublains archeaological site is a cluster of ruins, mostly dating back to Ancient Rome, found within the current French of Jublains in the of Mayenne in the Pays de la Loire region. On the site of a temple to the Celtic Diablintes, the Roman imperial authorities built a city named Noviodunum, which became the capital of this people at the time of the Augustinian administrative organization initiative. It was settled in the second half of the 1st century and endowed with public works that testify to the spread of the Roman way of life: theatre, forum and baths, in addition to the Celtic temple, which was rebuilt in stone. The difficulties the city experienced beginning in the 3rd century can be read in the fortifications built in that period, which are still the most impressive features of the site. In late antiquity the settlement lost its status as a capital when the Diablintes were absorbed into the Cenomani culture. Jublains is mostly known for its "Roman camp", reg ...
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