Colosseum Bracing Tensor
by Weston Westmoreland
Title
Colosseum Bracing Tensor
Artist
Weston Westmoreland
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Steel bracing tensor in the Colosseum, Rome.
This ancient amphitheater, built between 70 and 80 AD, has endured almost two millennia of rain, wind, floods, earthquakes and looting. Shorn of all its marble statues and plaques that dressed it, half naked and crumbled down in part, the Flavian Amphitheatre still stands proud. However, the self sustaining structure needs some help in certain places.
Named after a huge statue of Nero that was in the center of the gardens that occupied that space before the most famous amphitheater in the world was built, the Colosseum is the main exponent of the contradictions of the Roman Empire. So civilized and exquisite, yet so raw and barbaric. It never ceases to mesmerize me. Some 2,5-5 million people are believed to have been killed inside during the 500 years the Colosseum was active.
It came to happen that, centuries after the empire fell and all these grand buildings were forsaken, the Colosseum became an exotic botanic garden of sorts, due to all the seeds that the wild animals killed there had brought with them.
The white marble that once covered the Colosseum ended dressing the main facade of Saint Peter's Basilica. The remains of this magnificent amphitheater were preserved because it was consecrated as a church.
More pictures of the Colosseum and other Roman images in my Roman Gallery https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/weston-westmoreland.html?tab=artworkgalleries&artworkgalleryid=392464&page=1
You can learn more about what drives me in my blog:
http://inspiringthoughtsandimages.com/
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September 25th, 2017
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