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 ...

War memorials around the world tend to be country-specific in honoring the fallen, but a magnificent hilltop monument in the Italian city of Medea breaks the mold by also paying homage to peace. Built ...

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 ...

Witness the final days of Augustus and the creation of the Ara Pacis, exploring how the first emperor crafted his image and maintained absolute power while presenting himself as Rome’s restorer of ...

The Ara Pacis celebrates Augustus and the birth of a new imperial era. It blends politics, religion, and art into a message of peace and authority. This video explores how one monument helped redefine ...

When it comes to high-profile public architecture, Richard Meier is about as safe a pair of hands as you could hope for. For the past four decades, he has been turning out restrained but conspicuous ...

The first fragments of the remarkable ancient Roman monument called the Ara Pacis (“Altar of Peace”) were found in the early sixteenth century. For the next four hundred years, the large marble altar, ...