Ara Pacis Augustae
reed.edu →This web site honors all those who have worked to bring the Ara Pacis so impressively back to life. The main purpose of this web site is to make available a more comprehensive body of images of the Ara Pacis than previously available in any print or web publication. The Ara Pacis Augustae is a complex masterpiece, with elaborate reliefs including more than a hundred figures and voluminous vegetation filled with the details of nature. It is also a much damaged and reconstructed monument, making it important to distinguish original marble portions from later hypothical reconstructions and more recent changes. This web site attempts to provide in-depth visual documentation in support of the in-depth scholarly publications that have so enriched our understanding of Augustan art and society. This web site includes images of closely related material and photographs of the new Museo dell'Ara Pacis, in which the altar is now newly restored and displayed. I think of this web site partly as a supplement to the superb 2006/2009 volume, Ara Pacis , by Orietta Rossini, Responsabile Ufficio Ara Pacis , which provides authoritative, up-to-date reviews of all aspects of the monument, with outstanding illustrations. This is now the single most informative book about the Ara Pacis Augustae.
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The Ara Pacis Augustae (Latin, "Altar of Augustan Peace"; commonly shortened to Ara Pacis) is an altar in Rome dedicated to the Pax Romana. The monument was commissioned by the Roman Senate on July 4, 13 BC to honour the return of Augustus to Rome after three years in Hispania and Gaul and consecrated on January 30, 9 BC. Originally located on the northern outskirts of Rome, a Roman mile from the boundary of the pomerium on the west side of the Via Flaminia, the Ara Pacis stood in the northeastern corner of the Campus Martius, the former flood plain of the Tiber River and gradually became buried under 4 metres (13 ft) of silt deposits. It was reassembled in its current location, now the Museum of the Ara Pacis, in 1938, turned 90° counterclockwise from its original orientation so that the original western side now faces south.
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