opus reticulatum การใช้
- Above it on the hillside is a theatre of " opus reticulatum ", less well preserved.
- The Romans also cut tuff into small rectangular stones that they used to create walls in a pattern known as opus reticulatum.
- Examples have even been found in Etruscan cities, such as Rusellae, wherein opus reticulatum is present around the entire perimeter of the Roman amphitheater.
- The technique is opus reticulatum, typical for the Roman regions in Italy, hence the Lumbardian villa is a unique case on the eastern Adriatic coast.
- It was probably a term for a small shrine adjoining the Augustan-era opus reticulatum, although most of the remains belong to a Hadrianic restoration.
- The walls of " opus reticulatum " suggest a date at the beginning of the 1st century AD, which was confirmed by the discovery of " sealed " Arretine ceramic.
- To the height of the shrine ( approximately 13 m ), the external wall was constructed of " opus reticulatum " ( masonry of rectangular stones arranged like a checkerboard or net ).
- "Opus reticulatum " was used as a technique in the Renaissance Palazzo Rucellai in Florence, the skill having been lost with the end of the Roman Empire, and rediscovered by means of archeology by Leon Battista Alberti.
- Frank, however, maintains that though the cappellaccio tuff core may belong to the original building, the rest ( besides some concrete with an opus reticulatum facing, attributable to the 34 BC phase ) belongs to the 179 BC restoration.
- On a quadrangular base, covered with travertine blocks ( opus quadratum ), there were in the past two superimposed cylindrical towers, built in opus mixtum and opus reticulatum, the upper one with 13 niches designed to house statues of the dead.
- Beloch ( see below ) attributes this to the Oscan period; but the construction as shown in Labruzzi's drawing ( v . 17 ) 1 is partly of brick-work and opus reticulatum, which may, of course, belong to a restoration.
- The medieval castle of the Frangipani family, in which Conradin vainly sought refuge after the battle of Tagliacozzo in 1268, is built upon the foundations of a very large villa, of opus reticulatum with later additions in brickwork, and with a small harbour attached to it on the south-east.
- The complex of the Ospedale di Santo Spirito lies over an area that, in ancient Rome, was occupied by the villa of Agrippina the Elder ( wife of Germanicus and mother of Caligula ) : in some rooms below the Corsia Sistina, remains of " opus reticulatum " walls, mosaic floors, carved marbles and frescoes are still visible.
- Remains of the ancient theatre and of the city walls exist in the modern town, and above it is an area surrounded by a portico, in " opus reticulatum ", upon the north side of which is a rectangular building in " opus quadratum ", probably connected with the temple of Juno where archaic decorative terracottas artifacts have been found.
- The amphitheatre, erected by Ummidia Quadratilla ( whose passion for actors is mentioned by Pliny, " Epist . " vii . 24, on the occasion of her death at the age of about eighty ), still exists : it is built of " opus reticulatum " and the five entrances are by arches of larger blocks of stone; it is approximately circular in plan.