Images of Temple of Vesta, late 2nd century BCE, Rome. Digital Imaging Project: Art historical images of European and North American architecture and sculpture from classical Greek to Post-modern. Scanned from slides taken on site by Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College.

Temple of Vesta

possibly designed by Hermodoros of Salamis
late 2nd century B.C.E.

Distant views (ground level beyond the street is lower) This circular temple (Greek tholos plan) is located near the Tiber River. The circular portico has twenty slender fluted columns with Corinthian capitals. According to Esther Janowitz, "not only the building material, which was Pentelic marble from Attica, but also the builders came from Greece. Hermodoros of Salamis, a Greek, may have been the builder" (29). She also notes that this temple was one of the first examples of marble architecture in Rome.

Work Cited: Stefan Grundmann, ed. The Architecture of Rome. Stuttgart/London: Edition Axel Menges, 1998.

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Temple of Vesta

Distant views (ground level beyond the street is lower)