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St. Peter & The Coliseum I preferred my assignment to cover the most important and the oldest architecture styles in the history. The Renaissance, and the Ancient Roman Architecture. These styles had a lot of influences on Rome during the history. They changed Rome into a beautiful city. I’ve chosen two buildings, The St. Peter and The Coliseum, to represent these styles. In fact the whole St. peter (including St. Peter’s Square) exists out of two architecture styles: The Renaissance and the Baroque. St. Peter’s basilica represents Renaissance architecture and the St. Peter’s Square represents the Baroque style and the Coliseum is a beautiful example of the Ancient Roman architecture. In the next paragraphs I’ll explain these architectural styles and I’ll also give examples from other buildings to give a better view of these styles. Ancient Roman Architecture The Roman Empire lasted from 509 BC to AD 330. Early Roman art reflected its past in Etruscan civilization, but as the empire expanded, a distinctly Roman art emerged, the art of many different peoples and classes, from emperors to slaves. The architecture of the Romans was, from first to last, an art of shaping space around ritual". In other words, Anci