The Pope demolished this Ancient Roman Temple to build a Water Fountain

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Augustinian Thomist

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@KRISTIANITY_ 5 ай бұрын

I love your channel, please keep doing what you do!

@AugustinianThomist 5 ай бұрын

Thank you! Will do!

@hmao4466 5 ай бұрын

Very nice work. Thank you.

@AugustinianThomist 5 ай бұрын

Many thanks!

@kayharker712 4 ай бұрын

That was excellent - thank you. My first trip to Rome I stayed on the Via Cavour overlooking the remains of the Forum of Nerva, and that huge medieval? tower ..... it was always on my mind what would this have once looked like ?

@AugustinianThomist 4 ай бұрын

Excellent location. I also stayed on the Via Cavour above the Cavour station entrance last year. It was pleasantly surprising how walkable every ancient location is from there.

@Bix21-z3f 5 ай бұрын

Fantastic and informative ..Thank you so much from emerald isle .☘

@AugustinianThomist 5 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@Light-3in1 5 ай бұрын

Fountains established by the popes for pure, clean water for body & soul, very appropriate. The materials themselves are neither good nor bad not until men step in to decide their use. Thank you for the presentation.

@paramadevi3218 5 ай бұрын

Let's demolish St Peter's basilica and make a huge swimming pool then

@QWERTYUIOP-wu6ht 5 ай бұрын

@@paramadevi3218 or turn it into a mosque, condominium or better, a shopping center

@robertozeladarodriguez5321 5 ай бұрын

I hope that at some point, they restore or partially reconstruct some monuments, as was done before, so that we can appreciate and preserve them for future generations.

@AugustinianThomist 5 ай бұрын

There have been efforts recently in Rome to partially reconstruct some famous buildings such as the Basilica Ulpia, the huge basilica in Trajans forum which had its upper level columns put back into their original places. This was only in the last couple of years.

@robertozeladarodriguez5321 5 ай бұрын

@@AugustinianThomist That's great for showcasing the monument and appreciating its original scale. However, the one at the Basilica Ulpia seems like a good idea but poorly executed. Reconstructing the architrave and marble floors on just one side is not very aesthetic. At the very least, the architrave and floors should have been extended, using the remaining standing columns to create a sense of the space it occupied. I hope this is continued in the future. Thanks for replying; it was a great video.

@maxsonthonax1020 5 ай бұрын

@@robertozeladarodriguez5321 What does "not very aesthetic" mean? Aesthetically-pleasing? Not in keeping with the original aesthetic? Not a pleasing design to you?

@robertozeladarodriguez5321 5 ай бұрын

@@maxsonthonax1020 Aesthetically, it didn't turn out so well. If you look at the photos, centering everything on one side creates a lot of visual weight on that side. I know it's not possible to reconstruct everything, but I'm just talking about the architrave and the floor with the side columns; that would give cohesion to the whole structure.

@atlantic_love 5 ай бұрын

@@robertozeladarodriguez5321I haven't watched the video, but I take it that you mean they didn't capture the gestalt? If so, I agree with you.

@BrendanRiley 5 ай бұрын

I don't think the analogy with brutalism makes sense. Brutalism is hideous, ancient Roman buildings are not.

@AugustinianThomist 5 ай бұрын

I also think Roman architecture is a lot more beautiful but for example the Ryugyong Hotel as ridiculous as it is, is awe inspiring due to the sheer size but if we demolished it today, I wouldn't feel anything.

@muscledavis5434 5 ай бұрын

Are these red granite column shafts spoliae from the templum pacis or somewhere else? As far as I remember there were No columns Like this in the Forum Transistorium

@AugustinianThomist 5 ай бұрын

The red granite columns were taken from Old St Peters Basilica when it was being reconstructed.

@muscledavis5434 5 ай бұрын

@@AugustinianThomist omg that's awesome, thanks!

@eugeniomcaleca 5 ай бұрын

When speaking about the popes remind something: when they “destroyed” something (monuments were often collapsing due to a lack of population) they built in the meantime something new using the same old materials. This makes Rome unique in the world. Another thing: Rome had about 2 million people or more in the 3rd century. Only 18.000 in the early middle ages.

@DJALEXNOWO 5 ай бұрын

yes, that should be called destroyed. in the end of 4th century cooperation popes+christian emperors began and not using I would like to translate: banning people from visiting temples and even punishing them is kind of not using :)

@morgothfromangband6082 5 ай бұрын

This is what happens when the civilization collapses.

@fkapps 5 ай бұрын

I think it’s more worth focusing on preserving things in the present day, now that we know better than those popes of the distant pass about the importance of preserving historic monuments.

@Rikard_A 5 ай бұрын

@@morgothfromangband6082Rome had long lost it significants as the capital before the so called civilisation collapse and long before any Pope existet as we today understand the titel.

@QWERTYUIOP-wu6ht 5 ай бұрын

Spain also did the same thing during Spanish colonization in my country except that it wasn't buildings but forests. Of course, Rome was their predecessor so yeah, thanks Spain and Catholicism for introducing deforestation to my country just for the sake of "evangelization."

@BFDT-4 5 ай бұрын

What would the Temple of Minerva have looked like in about the year 1430 or before? Was the entire pediment by then already destroyed? Or did it survive? Appreciate any insight here.

@TWOCOWS1 5 ай бұрын

Lovely production. Thank you. What is totally surpring, is your overlooking of what Mussolini did to that forum and others in the neighborhood, by bulldozing an entire monumental road: Via Fori Imperiali, for his Fascist troops to march on, which is still there, and you show it in your aerial photos without pointing at them!!! Why so??

@AugustinianThomist 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for your comment, yes I am aware of Mussolini's road and his project to reveal the ancient ruins by bulldozing the neighbourhoods but I just wanted to focus on the Forum of Nerva and the fountain this video. Perhaps I'll cover it in a future video.

@elliottferris5929 5 ай бұрын

The whole place went through a lot of changes during the last decades and still is expected to be remodeled in the next future...things are in motion. Mussolini's Via dell impero will be one of the many aspects of the area during the ages.

@TWOCOWS1 5 ай бұрын

@@elliottferris5929 Thank you. But what does it mean?

@TWOCOWS1 5 ай бұрын

@@AugustinianThomist I appreciate that. But if you look at your own aerial picture, Mussolini's avenue cuts right in the middle of the Forum of Nerva, destroying about half of it--with one part on this side of the avenue, and another part on the other side. That distruction needs to be mentioned, even if just in the passing.

@AugustinianThomist 5 ай бұрын

@@TWOCOWS1 you're right, I will address this in the next video on the Forum of Augustus as I cannot edit the already published video. However the smaller road that protrudes from the Via del Impero that starts from the Forum of Nerva's two remaining columns will be removed in the very near future as part of a project to bring visitors to the ground level of the ancient forums while still having a barrier in between.

@MrPadre-nf7xl 2 ай бұрын

It is strange that the Italians are not yet rebuilding their heritage, destroyed by Christianity which is already collapsing itself, and by barbarism (because it is basically one and the same). Truly, Rome was so great that it was worth it.

@Jason-om6gl 5 ай бұрын

very nice

@AugustinianThomist 5 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@maxsonthonax1020 5 ай бұрын

Here I am again on You-Tube forced to defend Brutalism against unreasonable criticism.

@justinleclairabdullahqasim117 5 ай бұрын

The ever changing edifice demographics and the march of time. Impermanence. Vanity! Vanity! All is vanity. That is other than God.

@UltorCXXVIII 4 ай бұрын

Worst than the barbarians... The clerics!

@renzorubini5829 5 ай бұрын

I don't understand the purpose of this video; Rome is a city that has existed for almost 2500 years and it is a miracle that its ancient ruins can still be seen..... I forgot... the Pope is always to blame...

@mumuchat9475 5 ай бұрын

Le temple était déjā pas mal en ruines lors de sa "destruction" La fontaine monumentale en impose et, je trouve, rappelle un peu quelque chose d'antique avec son matériel "recyclé"

@johna.4334 5 ай бұрын

Damn the Popes for destroying these ancient Roman buildings.

@misaelfraga8196 5 ай бұрын

You're such a sheep. They are responsible why many buildings are still preserved.

@mfcoelho4 5 ай бұрын

They’re also responsible for the conservation of a lot of temples (by turning them into churches) and thousands of Ancient Rome statues and monuments.

@nordwestpassage 5 ай бұрын

@johna.4334 Christianity has destroyed many cultural assets.

@AndreaMoletta-s3c 5 ай бұрын

I like the fountain more than the temple, judge me if you can.

@renzorubini5829 5 ай бұрын

civilizations alternate ceaselessly in history. Perhaps the Popes demolished some ancient monuments, but they replaced them with other masterpieces or works useful to the people (the fountain) and did not cause the historical-cultural devastation of a madman like Henry VIII. Rome was abandoned and semi-deserted for centuries, what did you expect? That they would do restoration work?