Modes of Viewing the Urban Landscapes and Public Gardens of Early Imperial Rome

YUSUF GÜRKAN ERGIN (İstanbul Üniversitesi, Edebiyat Fakültesi, Tarih Bölümü, Eskiçağ Tarihi Anabilim Dalı, İstanbul, Türkiye)
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Yıl: 2021 Cilt: Sayı: 24 Sayfa Aralığı: 153 - 181 Metin Dili: İngilizce DOI: 10.47589/adalya.1036685 İndeks Tarihi: 23-11-2022

Modes of Viewing the Urban Landscapes and Public Gardens of Early Imperial Rome

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It has been claimed that with Augustus, the Roman Empire and its capital underwent a transformation that divided them into welldefined and controllable spaces based on a rational use of information. Emperors like Domitian established a sort of symbolic and physical domination over their subjects by creating a medium of surveillance which is observable in architecture and sculpture as well as in literature. Yet the functions of early imperial public gardens and urban landscapes like the Campus Martius and the plot on which the Domus Aurea rose have not been fully explored in this respect. This article aims to demonstrate how viewing, gazing and surveilling operated symbolically in these spaces through architecture and sculpture by using Foucaultian concepts such as “heterotopia” and “surveillance” as well as “imperial gaze.” The gaze of the emperor was directed to the heterotopic microcosms created in public gardens and urban landscapes, and also to individuals - elite and commoners alike - within them. This is an “imperial gaze,” a subjective, epistemological, juridical mode of viewing that tends to categorize the landscape, its constituents and its activities within from an elevated point.
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Augustus’la birlikte Roma İmparatorluğu ve Roma şehrinin rasyonel bilgiye dayalı, net şe- kilde tanımlanabilir ve kontrol edilebilir arazi parçalarına bölündüğü ileri sürülmüştür. Bu bağlamda şehir mimarisi ve uzamları gözet - lemeye imkân verecek şekilde düzenlenmiş ve görünüşe göre Domitianus gibi bazı impa - ratorlar “her şeyi gören ve bilen” hükümdar - lar olarak kitlelerin üzerinde sembolik ya da fiziksel tahakküm kurmuştur. Halka açık bah- çelerle Campus Martius gibi kentsel açık alan- lar ve Domus Aurea arazisinin benzer işlevleri ise pek tartışılmamıştır. Bu inceleme, Michel Foucault’nun “heterotopya” ile “gözetleme”, ayrıca “emperyal bakış” kavramlarını kullana- rak özellikle mimari ve heykeltıraşlık üzerinden böyle uzamlarda görme, bakma ve gözetle - menin sembolik olarak hangi yollarla gerçek - leştiğini göstermek amacındadır. İmparatorun “bakışı” ve “gözetlemesi”, şehrin ya da impara- torluğun söz konusu uzamlarda yaratılan hete- rotopik mikrokozmoslara ve bunların içindeki seçkin veya değil tüm bireylere yönelir. Bu aynı zamanda “emperyaldir”, yani belli bir yük- seklikten yönelen öznel, sınıflandırmaya eği - limli, epistemolojik ve hükmî bir bakıştır.
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