The Trajan's Markets constitute an extensive complex of Roman buildings in the city of Rome, on the slopes of the Quirinal hill.
Since 2007 they have housed the "Museum of the Imperial Fora".
The Museum was conceived as an integration in a single tour of the ancient remains, visible outdoors in the archaeological areas, and of the fragments of their architectural and sculptural decoration, which will be exhibited in the environments of the Trajan's Markets.
The objectives of the Museum are:
- recontextualize the exposed fragments and make the main architectural and decorative nodes of the forensic buildings understandable
-decode the celebratory and propaganda "discourse" made up of all the sculptures and reliefs of each complex
- show the importance of these monuments of the capital as a model for the forensic squares of provincial cities
- illustrate the topographical evolution of the human settlement in this central place of the city, even before and after the imperial age phase.
The exhibition of the materials will be divided into five sections, one for each of the five forensic complexes (Forum of Caesar, Forum of Augustus, Temple of Peace, Forum of Nerva and Forum of Trajan), located in the different levels of the monumental complex.
The Imperial Forums represent an exceptional set of monumental squares, erected over a period of about 150 years in the center of Rome, near the old republican square of the Roman Forum, as places for ceremonies and administrative activities and as suitable celebratory and representative spaces to the capital of the empire.
The Forum of Caesar (46 BC), the Forum of Augustus (2 BC), the Temple of Peace (75 AD), the Forum of Nerva or Transitorio (98 AD) and finally the Forum of Trajan (112) were inaugurated in succession. and 113 AD), the latter simultaneously with the construction of the complex of Trajan's Markets and the reconstruction of part of the Forum of Caesar.
The monumental complexes, among the greatest achievements of imperial architecture, and in particular their rich and articulated decorative and sculptural apparatus, represented a model for the achievements of the provincial cities and remained at least partially in use until the early medieval era.
Imperial Forums Museum - Trajan's Markets
Address: Via Quattro Novembre, 94
Phone: 06 0608
Site:
http://www.mercatiditraiano.it/Location inserted by
Andrea Squarcia