THE PERIOD OF FREE STYLE AND GENERAL CONCLUSIONS : Studies on architectural development of facade designs of the Roman Commemorative Arch (3)

Abstract

After the Trajanic age onwards, the Romans produced the various facade designs of the Roman Commemorative Arch. In this stage, we obseve the following two steps : in the first step the facade designs maintained the strict principle of classical orders, and in the second step orders turned to be one of the decorative elements on the facade by loosing the classical rule. Finally, the author shows a new scheme representing the whole process of architectural developments and changes of facade designs of the Roman Commemorative Arch, and proposes that the process is chronologically divided into five periods.