Cochlear columns in imperial Rome bore the historic visual narration of campaigns, battles, victories and conquers by emperors. This was possible as a long sculpture narration evolved along a helical frieze, permitting representation without aberration or visual distortion, due to the locally Euclidean property of the surface. We also describe the narrative correspondences relating to the vertical periodicity of the helix.
Le colonne coclidi della Roma Imperiale, avevano il compito di narrare visualmente campagne, battaglie vittorie e conquiste degli imperatori. Questa lunga narrazione si sviluppava, geometricamente parlando, lungo un fregio elicoidale avvolto su un cilindro, cioè su una superficie localmente euclidea, che permetteva quindi rappresentazioni piane prive di aberrazione o di distorsioni visuali. In questo studio descriviamo anche le corrispondenze iconografiche dovute alla periodicità verticale della geometria.
Carlini, A., Tedeschini-Lalli, L. (2017). Imperial roman cochlear columns and their historical narrative friezes. In 16th Conference on Applied Mathematics, APLIMAT 2017 - Proceedings (pp.312-322). Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava.
Imperial roman cochlear columns and their historical narrative friezes
Carlini, Alessandra;Tedeschini-Lalli, Laura
2017-01-01
Abstract
Cochlear columns in imperial Rome bore the historic visual narration of campaigns, battles, victories and conquers by emperors. This was possible as a long sculpture narration evolved along a helical frieze, permitting representation without aberration or visual distortion, due to the locally Euclidean property of the surface. We also describe the narrative correspondences relating to the vertical periodicity of the helix.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
