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

Filmed on set mini documentary/guided tour in 4k about the Temple of Minerva of the Forum of Nerva and the Fontana Aqua Paola, the fountain built using the marble remains of the Temple of Nerva demolished in the Renaissance.
This video is not slandering the Popes as the video provides reasons for why it was necessary at the time to provide water to a district without a clean source.
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00:00 - Forum of Nerva Today
00:50 - Digital Reconstruction of the Imperial Forums using Rome Reborn
02:40 - Medieval depictions of the Temple of Minerva
04:34 - Portico of Octavia as a comparison to the Temple of Minerva
06:23 - The Fountain
06:35 - Distance between the Forum of Nerva and the fountain
Music credits: • Peace of Rome - Imperi...
Resources used: www.atouchofrome.com/forum-of...
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Rome Reborn on Yorescape.com

[@KRISTIANITY_]

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

[@AugustinianThomist]

Thank you! Will do!

[@hmao4466]

Very nice work. Thank you.

[@AugustinianThomist]

Many thanks!

[@BrendanRiley]

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

[@AugustinianThomist]

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.

[@MA-wo5gy]

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

[@AugustinianThomist]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@BFDT-4]

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.

[@Jason-om6gl]

very nice

[@AugustinianThomist]

Thanks!

[@robertozeladarodriguez5321]

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]

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]

@@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]

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

[@robertozeladarodriguez5321]

​@@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]

​@@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.

[@TWOCOWS1]

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]

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]

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]

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

[@TWOCOWS1]

@@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]

@@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.

[@neonenour892]

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]

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]

This is what happens when the civilization collapses.

[@stephenburgess5710]

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]

​@@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]

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."

[@muscledavis5434]

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]

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

[@muscledavis5434]

@@AugustinianThomist omg that's awesome, thanks!

[@casimirgrochowski9583]

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]

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

[@QWERTYUIOP-wu6ht]

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

[@justinleclairabdullahqasim117]

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

[@maxsonthonax1020]

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

[@mumuchat9475]

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"

[@renzorubini5829]

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...

[@johna.4334]

Damn the Popes for destroying these ancient Roman buildings.

[@misaelfraga8196]

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

[@mfcoelho4]

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]

@johna.4334 Christianity has destroyed many cultural assets.

[@user-ef8ol7nx9u]

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

[@renzorubini5829]

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?