Architecture, Roman

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of photographs of various sites, all produced by A. Henry Detweiler during his trips in Italy, Greece, Asia Minor and the Middle East. The photographs document the ancient architecture, landscape and archaeological surveying of these areas. Some of the images represent people and everyday life in the visited countries.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of photographs of various sites, all produced by A. Henry Detweiler during his trips in Italy, Greece, Asia Minor and the Middle East. The photographs document the ancient architecture, landscape and archaeological surveying of these areas. Some of the images represent people and everyday life in the visited countries.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of photographs of various sites, all produced by A. Henry Detweiler during his trips in Italy, Greece, Asia Minor and the Middle East. The photographs document the ancient architecture, landscape and archaeological surveying of these areas. Some of the images represent people and everyday life in the visited countries.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of photographs of various sites, all produced by A. Henry Detweiler during his trips in Italy, Greece, Asia Minor and the Middle East. The photographs document the ancient architecture, landscape and archaeological surveying of these areas. Some of the images represent people and everyday life in the visited countries.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of photographs of various sites, all produced by A. Henry Detweiler during his trips in Italy, Greece, Asia Minor and the Middle East. The photographs document the ancient architecture, landscape and archaeological surveying of these areas. Some of the images represent people and everyday life in the visited countries.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Bini collection (ca. 3000 prints, ca. 2000 contacts and ca. 1500 slides) focuses on archaeological sites in Rome and the Roman world, and also includes images of Etruscan art, and Medieval and Renaissance art and architecture.

Abstract Esther Van Deman's work focuses on building materials, working to establish a chronology of construction for the ancient sites. In 1907, while attending a lecture in the Atrium Vestae in Rome, Van Deman noticed that the bricks blocking up a doorway differed from those of the structure itself. Such differences in building materials provided a key to discovering the chronology of ancient structures. Van Deman's basic methodology, with few modifications, became the standard procedure in Roman...