Lectures on Trajan’s Column and its Architect Apollodorus of Damascus - A cura di Cinzia Conti

2022, 796 pp., 500 ill. col., 5 colour Plates, 91 x 94 cm fold-out tav.
Copertina cartonata in tela, 24 x 31 cm

With Parallel Italian Text, 10 Tables

Preface by Alfonsina Russo
Introduction by Filippo Coarelli
Acknowledgements
Note to the Reader
1. A Byzantine Prayer
Cinzia Conti
2. The 1981-1988 Restoration
Cinzia Conti
3. Notes on Trajan's Column
Cinzia Conti, and Giangiacomo Martines
4. "Fantiscritti". The quarries and marble of Trajan's Column
Matthias Bruno
5. Columna cochlis Traiani. Order and Structure
Giangiacomo Martines
6. The solea of the base of the Column. Traces and evidence of construction work
Matthias Bruno
7. Squaring the storied frieze
Cinzia Conti, and Giangiacomo Martines
8. Small Circles on the Capital
Cinzia Conti, and Giangiacomo Martines
9. The Workmanship
Cinzia Conti, and Giangiacomo Martines
10. The Tools
Daniele De Tomassi
11. The Epigraph on the Podium: Plan and Letters
Cinzia Conti
12. Portraits of Trajan
Cinzia Conti
13. Trajan's Smile
Cinzia Conti
14. The War Engines before Sarmizegethusa Regia
Giangiacomo Martines
15. View from a distance
Cinzia Conti
16. Colour Fantasies
Cinzia Conti, and Giangiacomo Martines
17. That particular ancient colour
Cinzia Conti, and Giangiacomo Martines
18. The 'Maestro delle Gesta di Traiano' and his Stonemasons
Cinzia Conti
19. The walled-up Cella inside the Podium
Michele Campisi
20. Graffiti on the Staircase
Michele Campisi
21. The Technical Portrayal: Devices on the storied frieze
Cinzia Conti, and Giangiacomo Martines
22. The feats achieved by Apollodorus for Trajan: The Column and other architectural milestones
Cinzia Conti, and Giangiacomo Martines
23. The death of Apollodorus
Cinzia Conti, and Giangiacomo Martines
24. A catalogue of the types of architecture and the landscape on the storied frieze
Cinzia Conti, and Giangiacomo Martines
25. Lighting the Trajan's Column. Interview with Francesa, and Vittorio Storaro
26. Photographing Trajan's Column. Interview with Zeno Colantoni
27. Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli, "Io e ... La Colonna Traiana" 1972

Afterword
Feasibility study for a glass structure to protect the Column of Marcus Aurelius, as a workshop for the 1981 restorers.
Interview with Andrea Bruno
By Cinzia Conti, Enrica Giaccaglia, and Giangiacomo Martines

Works cited
Plates
I Warriors' pierced fists
II The Epigraph
III Trajan's Appearances
IV The Masons
V A 'Silent Chart' of the storied Frieze