Temple of Castor and Pollux

Temple of Castor and Pollux - temple
CensusID: 10000039
Alias
templum Faustorum
Tempio dei Dioscuri
Tempio dei Castori
Tempio di Castore e Polluce
Tres Columnae
Tre Colonne
Aedes Castoris
Aedes Castorus
Aedes Kastorus
Templum Castoris
Aedes Castorum
Aedes Castoris et Pallucis
Templum Castoris et Minervae
to ton Dioskoyron ieron
to Dioskoyreion
neos ton Dioskoyron
Tempio di Vulcano
Tempio di Gioue Statore
Tempio di Romolo
Le tre colonne
Templum Veneris Genetricis
Templum Romoli
Tempio de Vulcano
Tempio of Giove Statore
Temple de Jupiter Stator
Templum Castoris et Pollucis
Templum Vulcani
Location Roma, Regio VIII, Temple of Castor and Pollux
Description
Class
Type
Material
architecture
temple
concrete
limestone: travertine
marble
opus quadratum
tufa
Present Condition damaged/fragmentary
Original
yes
Number
01
Descriptive Details podium
cornices, 2
chambers
spur walls
pronaos
staircase
steps, 11
platform
railing
staircases, 2
narrow
cella
octastyle
peripteral
columns, 34
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Dimensions
Corinthian
length: 50 m
width: 30 m
heigth: 7 m
pronaos
length:15,8 m
width: 9,9 m
platform
heigth: 3,66 m
cella
length: 19,7 m
width: 16 m
History
Date of Creation
Style
Artist(s)/Creator(s)
6
Augustan
Tiberius
unknown
Condition when first known damaged/fragmentary
Reason
always there
Documentation
> Prospettivo Milanese > tercet 084 - tercet 092 (Census)
Preservation Event(s)
Date
Caligula
Action
altered
Person responsible Caligula
Note(s)
Converted into vestibule of palace.
Date
Action
Person responsible
Note(s)
Claudius
altered
Claudius
Converted back into a temple.
Date
Domitian
Action
restored
Person responsible Domitian
Date
Action
Person responsible
Note(s)
ante 5th cent.
damaged
unknown
All except three columns destroyed.
Relationships
Census Document(s):
Firenze, Bibl. Medicea-Laurenziana: > Cod. Gaddiano 148 > fol. 50 v > l. 16 B
Firenze, Bibl. Riccardiana: > Cod. N.I. 15/1925 > fol. 52v > l. 24 C
Venezia, Bibl. Marciana: > Ms. lat. X 231 > Tractatus > fol. 32 r > l. 5-24
Venezia, Bibl. Marciana: > Ms. lat. X 195 > Excerpta > fol. 25 v > D
Venezia, Bibl. Marciana: > Ms. lat. X 195 > Excerpta > fol. 31 v > D
> Prospettivo Milanese > tercet 084 - tercet 092
> Albertini 1510 (Opusculum) > book 2 > ch. 02 > fol. Nii v > lines 08-12
> Albertini 1510 (Opusculum) > book 2 > ch. 02 > fol. Miiii r > lines 14-19
> Albertini 1510 (Opusculum) > book 2 > ch. 04 > fol. Niiii r > lines 15-19
> Fulvio 1513 > book 2 > fol. 48 v > lines 14-18
> Fulvio 1513 > book 2 > fol. 51 r > lines 7-23
Firenze, Uffizi, GDSU: > inv. 1181 A v > C
Lisboa, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga: > inv. 1713 > A
London, RIBA: > Codex Stosch > fol. 20 r > B
London, RIBA: > Codex Stosch > fol. 19 v
London, RIBA: > Codex Stosch > fol. 20 v
Berlin, SMBPK, Kupferstichkabinett: > View of the Forum Romanum
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Berlin, SMBPK, Kupferstichkabinett: > Heemskerck Album II > fol. 91 v - fol. 92 r
Berlin, SMBPK, Kupferstichkabinett: > Heemskerck Album I > fol. 06 r
Berlin, SMBPK, Kupferstichkabinett: > Heemskerck Album II > fol. 38 r
Berlin, SMBPK, Kupferstichkabinett: > Heemskerck Album II > fol. 38 v
Berlin, SMBPK, Kupferstichkabinett: > Heemskerck Album II > fol. 56 r
Paris, Fondation Custodia / Frits Lugt Collection: > inv. 6111 r
Firenze, Uffizi, GDSU: > inv. 1339 A v > B
Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibl.: > Ud gr. 2° 15 > no. 008 > B
private collection: > Aedificiorum Antiquae Urbis Monumenta quaedam e Ruinis Excerpta > fol. C
Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibl.: > Ud gr. 2° 15 > no. 069
> Labacco 1552 A > p. 16 > A
> Labacco 1552 A > p. 16 > B
Berlin, SBBPK: > Codex Pighianus > fol. 163 r
Berlin, SMBPK, Kupferstichkabinett: > Heemskerck Album II > fol. 12 r
Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibl.: > inv. 6.1 Geom 2° (4) > part 2: Operum antiquorum Romanum,
1562 > pl. 14 > A
London, RIBA: > vol. VII > fol. 7 r
Windsor Castle, Royal Lib.: > Dal Pozzo Albums, vol. A17 > inv. 10786 r
Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibl.: > inv. Ud 42: Operum Antiquorum Romanorum > pl. 10
Firenze, Uffizi, GDSU: > inv. 2523 A r
> Gamucci 1569 > book 1 > fol. 20 r
> Gamucci 1569 > book 1 > fol. 29 v
Firenze, Uffizi, GDSU: > inv. 2508 A r
Firenze, Uffizi, GDSU: > inv. 2522 A r
Firenze, Uffizi, GDSU: > inv. 2572 A r
Firenze, Uffizi, GDSU: > inv. 3995 A r
> Gamucci 1569 > book 1 > fol. 30 r > lines 01-05
> Gamucci 1569 > book 1 > fol. 30 v > lines 01-06
> Gamucci 1569 > book 1 > fol. 28 r > lines 01-10
> Gamucci 1569 > book 1 > fol. 20 v > lines 01-13
> Gamucci 1569 > book 1 > fol. 31 v > lines 03-18
> Gamucci 1569 > book 1 > fol. 30 r > lines 11-22
> Gamucci 1569 > book 1 > fol. 27 r > lines 16-25
> Gamucci 1569 > book 1 > fol. 30 r > lines 22-29
> Gamucci 1569 > book 1 > fol. 29 r > lines 23-29
> Gamucci 1569 > book 1 > fol. 18 v > lines 9-28
> De' Cavalieri / Dosio 1569 > no. 06
> De' Cavalieri / Dosio 1569 > no. 23
> De' Cavalieri / Dosio 1569 > no. 27
> Palladio 1570 > book 4 > p. 067 > A
> Palladio 1570 > book 4 > p. 067 > B
> Palladio 1570 > book 4 > p. 067 > C
> Palladio 1570 > book 4 > p. 067 > E
> Palladio 1570 > book 4 > p. 068
Ferrara, Bibl. Com. Ariostea: > MS. I 217 > fol. 66 r
Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Graphische Sammlung: > inv. C 5804
> Du Perac 1575 > fol. 07
New York, Morgan Lib., Feltrinelli Coll.: > Du Perac Sketchbook > fol. 15 v - fol. 16 r
New York, Morgan Lib., Feltrinelli Coll.: > Du Perac Sketchbook > fol. 16 v - fol. 17 r
Palermo, Bibl. Comunale: > Libro d'Arabeschi > fol. 144
Torino, AST: > Ligorio, Antichità XV > fol. 173 v > A
Torino, AST: > Ligorio, Antichità XV > fol. 140 v > A
Torino, AST: > Ligorio, Antichità XV > fol. 144 r > B
Torino, AST: > Ligorio, Antichità XV > fol. 173 v > G
Torino, AST: > Ligorio, Antichità XV > fol. 174 r > G
Chicago, Univ. Libr.: > Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae > no. A 113
Chicago, Univ. Libr.: > Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae > no. B 184
Venezia, Bibl. Marciana: > inv. Ms. it. cl. IV 149 > fol. 13 r
Venezia, Bibl. Marciana: > inv. Ms. it. cl. IV 149 > fol. 13 v
> Map of Rome by Antonio Tempesta > pl. 4 r
Kassel, MHK, Schloss Wilhelmshöhe, Graphische Sammlung: > inv. 5093
Roma, Istituto Centrale per la Grafica, GNS: > vol. 2502 > fol. 085 v - fol. 086 r > D
Berlin, SMBPK, Kupferstichkabinett: > Heemskerck Album II > fol. 79 v - fol. 80 r
Dresden, SKD, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister: > View of the Forum Romanum
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Dresden, SKD, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister: > View of the Forum Romanum
References
Bibliography:
> Jordan, Heinrich: Topographie der Stadt Rom im Alterthum, I, 2. Abt., Berlin 1885 > pp. 369-376
> Platner, Samuel Ball: A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, completed and revised by
Thomas Ashby, Oxford 1929 (repr. Rome 1965) > pp. 103-105
> Nash, Ernest: Pictorial Dictionary of Ancient Rome, I-II, London 1961-1962 (reissued 1981 by
Hacker Art Books, Inc. New York) > vol. I, pp. 210-213, figs. 239-243
> Coarelli, Filippo: Guida archeologica di Roma, Verona 1974 > pp. 82-83
> Lawrence Richardson, jr.: A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, Baltimore/ London1992
> pp. 75-77
> Steinby, Eva Margareta: Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae, I-IV, Roma 1993-1999 > I, pp. 242245
> Valentini, Roberto & Zucchetti, Giuseppe: Codice topografico della città di Roma, I-IV, Rome 19401953 > I, p. 117, n. 4
Comment
According to tradition the Dioscuri appeared on this spot in 496 B.C. They swore an oath of allegiance
in 496 B.C. with the dictator Postumius after the battle of Lke Regillus. Dedicated in 484 B.C. by the
son of the dictator. Restored in 117 B.C. by Caecilius Metellus. Repaired by Verres. Rebuilt by Tiberius
in 6 A.D. (cf. history page) and dedicated in his name and that of his brother Drusus.
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