This is a model of the temple of Hercules Victor, located at the city of Rome. The model is created considering real-time rendering standards, with an efficient mesh and PBR materials.
The Temple of Hercules Victor is located in the Forum Boarium on the eastern bank of the Tiber, it is one of the oldest extant buildings in the city.
The well-preserved temple’s round shape and height makes it prominent and stunning. Surrounded by a spacious piazza, the monument is 14.8 meters in diameter and consists of a circular cella within a concentric ring of twenty Corinthian columns, which are 10.66 meters high.
The original temple, which can be dated to the end of the second century B.C., is the oldest standing marble building in Rome. It is believed to have been constructed by the Greek architect Hermodoros of Salamina, who was working in Rome during the second half of the second century B.C. The temple is designed in the style of a round Greek Temple and built of Greek Pentelic marble (the same stone as the Parthenon). The circular shape has caused the Temple of Hercules
Victor to be misidentified as a Temple of Vesta. Then the building was thought to be a Temple of Cybele. It was correctly identified by Napoleon’s Prefect of Rome, Camille de Tournon.
