In 13BC the Emperor Augustus marched home from three years of imposing peace on his formerly fractious empire, and the Senate promptly commissioned a monument to mark his achievements. Four years ...

(ANSA) - Rome, August 20 - Long queues formed on Tuesday evening for a digital light show at the Ara Pacis Augustae (Latin for Altar of Augustan peace), a monument dedicated to Roman emperor Augustus.

Workers paint over the splatters on the back wall of the museum designed by U.S. architect Richard Meier. ((Riccardo De Luca/Associated Press)) The Ara Pacis museum, a controversial modern museum in ...

2006-04-26 04:00:00 PDT Rome-- On a sunny spring day in early April, Nigel Ryan, a project architect for the Ara Pacis museum by architect Richard Meier -- the first new building in the historic heart ...

One thing you learn quickly in Rome is that there is not a lot of contemporary architecture in the historic center. Newer high profile works tend to be clumped at the edges, like Renzo Piano’s Parco ...

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