Dear Members,

I am in the process of making available online a new digital
photographic archive of Rome: The Imperial Fora. New Digital Archive
of the Archaeological Excavations, Discoveries; The New Visitor
Center of the Imperial Fora and On Site Education / Informational
Panels, etc.

The new digital archive is part of a larger project I have been
working on since the mid-1999 to the present:

ROME - THE IMPERIAL FORA.
The Documentation and Dissemination of the Recent Archaeological
Investigations and Related Studies conducted in the Imperial Fora of
Rome from 1995 – 2005.

By: Martin G. Conde, Washington D.C., USA (1999-2006).
mgconde@...

I am posting in "Romae Eterna Photos" section a snapshot of a
collection of digital images of the NEW VISITOR CENTER OF THE
IMPERIAL FORA.

The photos are arranged in chronological sequence, etc:

1. The First Visitor Center of the Roman Forum (near the Basilica
Julia) c. 1906.
2. The Temporary Visitor Center of the Imperial Fora constructed for
the Jubilee Celebration in Rome (1998-200). Formerly located on the
corner of the Via dei Fori Imperiali and the Via Cavour.
3. The New Visitor Center of the Imperial Fora (2002 to Present). The
now permanent site located directly across from the Basilica of
Maxentius.

The digital image collection in this set once available online - the
new Visitor Center of the Imperial Fora also included numerous images
of the educational panels located inside the center i.e. the Forma
Urbis Romae and the corresponding contemporary archaeological sites
in Rome, and images of the new model of the Imperial Fora, etc.

Under each photograph, the caption included supplementary information
as well as URL links to WebPages that provided additional
information, etc.

For instance, the image of the first visitor of the Roman Forum c.
1906. Beneath the image the caption has a bibligraphical lists and
URL links to the images of the Prof. Marcellini'a model of Rome, c.
1906 for example:

Rome - Roman Forum, Visitor Center c. 1906. Model of Rome / G.
Marcelliani =

During the course of the later excavations in the Roman Forum c. 1906
onwards, near the (then) entrance of The Roman Forum near the
Basilica Julia one of the modern houses on the street of Via della
Grazie 16 "Roma - della Restitutio Urbis" was the original location
that exhibited the first model of ancient Rome created by Prof.
Giuseppe Marcellini, c. 1906. This was the first visitor center for
the Roman Forum.
Sources:
~Image: ICCD- L'Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la
Documentazione - Fototeca Nazionale, Neg. 9077, Rome, Italy (2006).
= "ROMA - DALLA RESTITUTIO URBIS - VIA DELLE GRAZIE 16 - FORO ROMANO
(RICOSTRUZIONE PLASTICA ESEGUITA DAL PROF. G. MARCELLIANI)."

http://www.iccd.beniculturali.it" or English version:
http://www.iccd.beniculturali.it/ENGLISH/Index.html

~P.G. Rossetto, LA "ROMA DI COCCIO" DI GIUSEPPE MARCELLIANI,
BOLLETINO DEI MUSEI COMUNALI DI ROMA. IV (1990: 11-16).

For images of the original model by Prof. Marcelliani, see article
cited above:

~Possetto (1990) & L. Benevolo / F. Scoppola, L' area archeologica
centrale e la citta moderna, Roma (1989: 4).

~For a newspaper account of the model, see: [PROF. GIUSEPPE
MARCELLIANI] ANCIENT ROME REBUILT. THE WASHINGTON POST, WASHINGTON
DC, USA. JAN. 11th, 1908, p.E12.

~Digital images of the Marcelliani model see:
Leo C. Curren, Maecenas - Images of Ancient Greece and Rome.
Reconstruction Drawing A & B. copyright L.C. Curren (1999).
http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/rome/reconstructions/thumbnail
s_contents.html

Thank you
Martin G Conde
Washington DC, USA
mgconde@...