Colosseum

Colosseum

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5680

Flavian amphitheater

Bugbee, Gordon (photograph)

Single Built Works

Italy (nation)

Rome (inhabited place)

Imperial (Roman)

amphitheaters (built works)

arches

Detail view of the curving of exterior wall and arches (believed to once hold statues of the gods) of the Colosseum in Rome, Italy. "The amphitheater is a vast ellipse with tiers of seating for 50,000 spectators around a central elliptical arena. Below the wooden arena floor, there was a complex set of rooms and passageways for wild beasts and other provisions for staging the spectacles. Eighty walls radiate from the arena and support vaults for passageways, stairways and the tiers of seats. At the outer edge circumferential arcades link each level and the stairways between levels. The three tiers of arcades are faced by three-quarter columns and entablatures, Doric in the first story, Ionic in the second, and Corinthian in the third. Above them is an attic story with Corinthian pilasters and small square window openings in alternate bays. At the top brackets and sockets carry the masts from which the velarium, a canopy for shade, was suspended,"--The Architecture Week, Great Buildings website.

615' x 510'; 159' H

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