Design Insights XLII
📜 "... everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses."
This particularly insightful excerpt of Juvenal's first-century work, Satire X, speaks as much to the modern era as it did to those living in the Roman empire. The concluding phrase "panem et circenses" refers to the artificial appeasement by which the ruling elite ensured the masses would remain pacified. To this point, we've explored many of the "circuses" referred to by this saying in their various forms. Today, for the first time in my ongoing SPQR project, we'll be taking a look at a space dedicated to "panem," specifically the 'grain dole' known as 'cura annonæ'.
Don't miss this all-new DESIGN Insights post highlighting Phase III of my ongoing efforts to build all of Ancient Rome, circa mid-4th century CE!
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Design Insights XLII
📜 "... everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses."
This particularly insightful excerpt of Juvenal's first-century work, Satire X, speaks as much to the modern era as it did to those living in the Roman empire. The concluding phrase "panem et circenses" refers to the artificial appeasement by which the ruling elite ensured the masses would remain pacified. To this point, we've explored many of the "circuses" referred to by this saying in their various forms. Today, for the first time in my ongoing SPQR project, we'll be taking a look at a space dedicated to "panem," specifically the 'grain dole' known as 'cura annonæ'.
Don't miss this all-new DESIGN Insights post highlighting Phase III of my ongoing efforts to build all of Ancient Rome, circa mid-4th century CE!
😎 These insights are EXCLUSIVE to Corinthian patrons, and peel back the curtain months before these designs will be shared publicly. The renderings, on the other hand, are shared with patrons of all tiers.
Support this unprecedented project on Patreon!
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#Artist #SupportArtists #FineArt #SmallBusinessOwner #History #ChicagoArtist #SPQR #ImperialRome #AncientRome #Rome #Roma #RomanEmpire #LEGO #LEGOArchitecture #LEGOArt #InstaLEGO #GoBricks #Antiquity
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Design Insights XLII
📜 "... everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses."
This particularly insightful excerpt of Juvenal's first-century work, Satire X, speaks as much to the modern era as it did to those living in the Roman empire. The concluding phrase "panem et circenses" refers to the artificial appeasement by which the ruling elite ensured the masses would remain pacified. To this point, we've explored many of the "circuses" referred to by this saying in their various forms. Today, for the first time in my ongoing SPQR project, we'll be taking a look at a space dedicated to "panem," specifically the 'grain dole' known as 'cura annonæ'.
Don't miss this all-new DESIGN Insights post highlighting Phase III of my ongoing efforts to build all of Ancient Rome, circa mid-4th century CE!
😎 These insights are EXCLUSIVE to Corinthian patrons, and peel back the curtain months before these designs will be shared publicly. The renderings, on the other hand, are shared with patrons of all tiers.
Support this unprecedented project on Patreon!
Link below ➡️🔗⤵️
www.patreon.com/RoccoButtliere
#Artist #SupportArtists #FineArt #SmallBusinessOwner #History #ChicagoArtist #SPQR #ImperialRome #AncientRome #Rome #Roma #RomanEmpire #LEGO #LEGOArchitecture #LEGOArt #InstaLEGO #GoBricks #Antiquity
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Design Insights XLII
📜 "... everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses."
This particularly insightful excerpt of Juvenal's first-century work, Satire X, speaks as much to the modern era as it did to those living in the Roman empire. The concluding phrase "panem et circenses" refers to the artificial appeasement by which the ruling elite ensured the masses would remain pacified. To this point, we've explored many of the "circuses" referred to by this saying in their various forms. Today, for the first time in my ongoing SPQR project, we'll be taking a look at a space dedicated to "panem," specifically the 'grain dole' known as 'cura annonæ'.
Don't miss this all-new DESIGN Insights post highlighting Phase III of my ongoing efforts to build all of Ancient Rome, circa mid-4th century CE!
😎 These insights are EXCLUSIVE to Corinthian patrons, and peel back the curtain months before these designs will be shared publicly. The renderings, on the other hand, are shared with patrons of all tiers.
Support this unprecedented project on Patreon!
Link below ➡️🔗⤵️
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#Artist #SupportArtists #FineArt #SmallBusinessOwner #History #ChicagoArtist #SPQR #ImperialRome #AncientRome #Rome #Roma #RomanEmpire #LEGO #LEGOArchitecture #LEGOArt #InstaLEGO #GoBricks #Antiquity
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Design Insights XLI
📜 The very first permanent theatre built in Rome was the Theatre of Pompey, completed in 55 BCE by Pompey Magnus. At the time of its construction, nothing like it had been built in Rome as the wooden impermanence of all previous theatres was in keeping with a Roman law prohibiting any built of stone. Pompey the Great, ever the shrewd statesman, circumvented these regulations by building a temple dedicated to numerous deities in the center of the semicircular seating area. Access to the temple was through the theatre and each level of seating corresponded to another temple floor dedicated to more gods.
The Theatre of Pompey was accompanied by lavish porticoes and gardens stretching all the way to the Largo Argentina area where some of the most sacred temples of the Campus Martius still stand in ruins to this day. Not to be outdone by their precedence, Pompey included a sizable Curia directly adjacent to the row of temples. There, the Senate convened on multiple occasions after a fire had consumed the usual Curia in the Forum. It was in the Curia of Pompey that his friend-turned-enemy Julius Cæsar was assassinated on the Ides of March, 44 BCE.
Don't miss this all-new DESIGN Insights post highlighting Phase III of my ongoing efforts to build all of Ancient Rome, circa mid-4th century CE!
😎 These insights are EXCLUSIVE to Corinthian patrons, and peel back the curtain months before these designs will be shared publicly. The renderings, on the other hand, are shared with patrons of all tiers.
Support this unprecedented project on Patreon!
Link below ➡️🔗⤵️
www.patreon.com/RoccoButtliere
#Artist #SupportArtists #FineArt #SmallBusinessOwner #History #ChicagoArtist #SPQR #ImperialRome #AncientRome #Rome #Roma #RomanEmpire #LEGO #LEGOArchitecture #LEGOArt #InstaLEGO #GoBricks #Antiquity
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