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Stage 9: Thermae. Culture. Natatio at Bath, England. Frigidarium, Bath, England. Hypocaust System-heating system. The Hot Spring and the Drain with Lead Pipes. Model of Bath Complex. The Temple Pediment. Lost and Found…. Tombstones. Stabian Baths, Pompeii, Italy. peristylum.
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Stage 9: Thermae Culture
Stabian Baths, Pompeii, Italy peristylum
Farnese Bull • Shows the myth of Dirce who was tied to a bull • by the sons of Antiope (wife of the king of Thebes) for her ill-treatment of her • Found in 1546 in the Baths of Caracalla when Pope Paul III commissioned excavations for his • Roman residence • Now resides in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli
Farnese Herakles • Copy of an original of • Lysippos • Made for the Baths of • Caracalla • Recovered in 1546
Baths of Diocletian • 298AD-Emperor Maximian, on his return from Africa, began constructing a vast bathing establishment, acting on behalf of his co-Emperor Diocletian, who was reigning in Asia Minor. • 300-305-Diocletian is considered responsible for the forced labor of 10,000 Christians in the back bending task of construction. At about the time of completion, 305 AD, both emperors were forced to abdicate. • 538-The Goths cut off Rome’s water by demolishing the aqueducts, rendering Rome’s 900 Baths useless. • 1561-Pope Pius IV Medici commissioned the 86 year old Michelangelo to design a church honoring the angels and the Christian martyrs who died in the Bath’s construction • 1749-Luigi Vanvitelli reconstructed the Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli • 1889-Museo Nazionale Romano was installed in a small part of the original Bath to house works of art from ancient Rome
Terme Boxer • Boxer of Quirinal aka Terme Boxer • Hellenistic Greek sculpture from the • 1st c BCE • Sitting boxer with cestus (gloves) • Recovered in 1885 on the slopes of the • Quirinal hill • Possibly from the remains of the Baths • of Constantine • Suggests that it is a portrait of a • particular boxer