Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus

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Descripcion foto: The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, also known as the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus was the most important and oldest large temple in Ancient Rome. Traditionally dedicated in 509 BC and featuring Etruscan architecture, each deity of the Triad had a separate 'cella', with Juno Regina on the left, Minerva on the right, and Jupiter Optimus Maximus in the middle. It was decorated with many terra cotta sculptures, including Jupiter driving a quadriga on top of the roof. Over the years the temple accrued countless statues and trophies dedicated by victorious generals. Built of wood, this temple was destroyed by fire in 83 BC. Its reconstruction employed craftsmen summoned from Greece, and the new building is presumed to have been essentially Greek in style, using some of the gigantic incomplete columns from the Temple of Zeus in Athens. It featured Jupiter seated with a thunderbolt and scepter in either hand and possibly an image of the goddess Roma in one hand as well, made of gold and ivory. It also burnt in the year 69 and was replaced by a third building commissioned by Emperor Vespasian, which included a quadriga atop the gable and bigae driven by figures of Victory on either side at the base of the roof. The third temple burned during the reign of Titus in 80 CE, and Domitian immediately began rebuilding it. The temple was closed by Emperor Theodosius I in 392 during the persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire, sacked by the Vandals during the sack of Rome in 455, and finally demolished in the 16th century, when Palazzo Caffarelli was built on the site.

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