https://cgmr.carleton.edu/files/original/bb153a86d746cf4fffc316d017806a38.jpg f9d0bbbfa572a0fc3cf83386ac4f9684 https://cgmr.carleton.edu/files/original/f2d6bc8a5021608baf37d628597b3ecf.png a47470951f9f3a021e0ee1451518a738 Place A location with a street address or larger region. Examples include building, statue, piazza, fountain, port, neighborhood, paintings, sculptures, frescoes, floors. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Torre Sanguigna Description An account of the resource The Torre Sanguigna is a medieval tower just north of the Piazza Navona. Despite the large number of noble family towers that once filled Rome, it is today one of the “ill-documented and few” towers that still survive from the inhabited city center of the Middle Ages. An article on medieval masonry is one of the few English-language articles to mention it, and this source, as well, mentions little more about it than its proximity to the Piazza Navona. It does, however, provide a date for the construction of the Torre Sanguigna: the alternating rows of brickwork and small bricks of tufa (a local stone) visible on its lower section suggest a twelfth or thirteenth-century date of construction. Many medieval towers in Rome that survive are often treated as “museum pieces” and are disconnected from its medieval context; the Torre Sanguigna, however, is an exception. It is still integrated into its block of buildings, even if the fortified house—domus—that would have originally been connected to it and housed the noble family that built it is no longer standing or at least visible. Despite the great changes to the city since the Middle Ages, including the widening of the streets and the greater height of the surrounding buildings, the Torre Sanguigna, as currently situated, provides a view of the original place of the tower as part of a larger building complex. Antonio Tempesta’s seventeenth-century map of Rome provides a perspective of the tower midway between its construction and the present day, and it is depicted, then as now, as part of the surrounding city block. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Emma Burd (2015), edited by Sam Jackson (2027) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Barclay Lloyd, J. E. “Masonry Techniques in Medieval Rome.” Papers of the British School at Rome 53 (1985): 225-277. Krautheimer, Richard. Rome: Profile of a City, 312 - 1308. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980. Tempesta, Antonio. Plan of the City of Rome. From The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1645. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context torresanguigna_2015 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Via Giuseppe Zanardelli, 00186 Roma RM Abstract A summary of the resource. The Torre Sanguigna is a medieval tower just north of the Piazza Navona. Despite the large number of noble family towers that once filled Rome, it is today one of the “ill-documented and few” towers that still survive from the inhabited city center of the Middle Ages. The tower was constructed either in the twelfth or thirteenth century using alternating rows of brickwork and small bricks of tufa (a local stone) visible on its lower section. The tower is still integrated into its block of buildings, even if the fortified house—domus—that would have originally been connected to it and housed the noble family that built it is no longer standing or at least visible. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1100s 1200s Type The nature or genre of the resource Place Towers