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Remnants of Hadrian's Library | Athens, Greece [02/2025]

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Athens, Greece

Did some value studies of some of the ruins of ancient Athens. They’re not pein air, I knew I wouldn’t have had any time to do that with how short my trip was. I really miss the January spring down there.

Working on this gave me flashbacks to my first year form study course where I did my first tries with watercolor that turned out to be the worst thing I ever made. Still, I’m happy with how the Parthenon detail turned out.

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Τhe imperial forum termed conventionally the Library was Hadrian’s response to the neighboring forum of Ceasar and Augustus, now known as the “Roman Agora”. It was constructed in around 132 CE and in order for the new compound to be founded, 24 standard house blocks of a Roman city were expropriated and demolished.

It is of rectangular plan, measuring aproximately 119×89 metres. It had an internal enclosure was embellished with a portico of 100 columns, in the form of a garden with a large pool in the centre. In the east part were the halls were the books were and the amphitheaters, while smaller halls served as reading rooms.

In each one of the north and south side there were 3 “exedrae“, niches of semicircular and rectangular shape, which were probably used for lectures.

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