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Archeologist spends over 35 years building enormous scale model of Ancient Rome. Scale 1:250. Most of it is based on the Forma Urbis, a huge marble topographical plan made during the empire of Septimius Severus.pic.twitter.com/CVmoOgwktJ
The plaster model was created by archaeologist Italo Gismondi, who worked on the piece throughout his life.pic.twitter.com/7pOW4Qb5Xb
There is also « Le Plan de Rome » another wonderful « maquette » (70 m² -scale 1:400) realised by the French architect Paul Bigot (1870-1942), « Grand Prix de Rome » in 1900. This plaster model is exposed at Caen universitypic.twitter.com/7kfFPjb7NO
So... What you're saying is he didn't build it in a day?
I love that one. And it allows me to once again plug my favorite museum in Paris! http://www.museedesplansreliefs.culture.fr/
Is the reddish wiggly structure an aqueduct?
Yes it is. Well spotted.
All the marvelous buildings the Romans built, and I've always been starry-eyed over their aqueducts. So simple in principle, so world-changing in practice.
Incredible! Thanks for sharing!
Gismondi was actually an architect, not an archaeologist.
Are you sure it's not Howard Stark's model for Vibranium 
pic.twitter.com/ZSwGdk2fLZ
Where is the canopy for the Coliseum? It is supposed to have a retractable canopy for shading the peasants during shows. How could he have left that out, back to the drawing board & another 29 years.....
"The plaster design was commissioned by Mussolini in 1933 and illustrates Rome in the Fourth century AD at the time of Constantine the Great." Completed in 1971.https://colosseumrometickets.com/model-of-ancient-rome/ …
Didn't Mussolini destroy much of the ruins to make way for the Via del Fori Imperiali so he could parade himself?
see the like?
This looks superior to the Rome of Today! Let's see China copy this . . . in real scale
As if living in Rome is not like living in the Classical antiquity. What a waste of time....!!!
I didn’t realize Ancient Rome was THAT big with so many buildings.
Na verdade e fantastico
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