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Model of the Temple of Castor and Pollux, Rome
Plaster
Height: 32cm
Width: 32cm
Depth: 15cm
Width: 32cm
Depth: 15cm
Museum number: L70
On display: Library-Dining Room
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Curatorial note
These three Corinthian columns are the only substantial remains of the Temple of Castor and Pollux in the Forum Romanum, Rome.
The temple was referred to in Soane's day as the Temple of Jupiter Stator and the columns themselves frequently described as the 'Three columns in the campo vaccino' (the open area where cows graze). This model depicts the columns before more modern excavations - the ground level of the Roman Forum was not uncovered until the twentieth century and the bases of these columns were buried at the time this model was made.
The temple was referred to in Soane's day as the Temple of Jupiter Stator and the columns themselves frequently described as the 'Three columns in the campo vaccino' (the open area where cows graze). This model depicts the columns before more modern excavations - the ground level of the Roman Forum was not uncovered until the twentieth century and the bases of these columns were buried at the time this model was made.
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