https://cgmr.carleton.edu/files/original/97600010435fe96f06e750054f96a3e6.jpg 6cba5952d1befe33f62751ceffaec979 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 Columns and Colonnades as Spolia Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ben White (2017) Description An account of the resource The house at this site presents an intersection of medieval and ancient Rome. The colonnaded portico, clearly distinct from the otherwise modern appearance of the house's exterior, is an excellent example showing the practice of using ancient marble spoils taken from ruins or other buildings in the construction of medieval houses. Ornamentation of medieval structures using spoiled elements was a consistent feature in Rome, but this was not always the fate of Roman marble - architectural features and statuary frequently was fed to the lime kilns during the medieval period. For those pieces which survived, Richard Krautheimer argues that without the threat of paganism, these spoils could be viewed appreciatively as "quotations" of the craftsmen of the past. Colonnaded porticoes specifically appear to have become a feature of upper class housing in high medieval Rome, with columns and architraves almost always being spoils. When rows of houses with porticoes were built, the continuous portico along the street would have provided some shade or protection from rain for pedestrians. In this house, a fragment of an ancient frieze is also an ancient spoil, featuring magnificent lion heads and palmette decoration. Abstract A summary of the resource. Ornamentation of medieval structures using spoiled elements was a consistent feature in Rome, but this was not always the fate of Roman marble - archictural features and statuary frequently was fed to the lime kilns during the medieval period. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context spoliacolumnscolonnades_2015 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Via del Banco di Santo Spirito, 60/ 61, 00186 Roma RM Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Krautheimer, Richard. <em>Rome: Profile of a City, 312-1308</em>. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. neighborhoods Unsure on details