Le decorazioni dipinte e marmoree della Domus Aurea di Nerone a Roma
By (author) P.G.P. Meyboom By (author) E.M. Moormann
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(February 2013)
ISBN: 9789042925458
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In this study, the authors have thoroughly documented the various decorations of walls and vaults in the building underneath the Baths of Trajan. This edifice was part of Nero’s Domus Aurea, situated in the Augustan Regio III alongside the southern slope of the Colle Oppio in the modern Parco delle Terme di Traiano. This building was a large pavilion within Nero’s properties which extended over the Oppius and Esquiline hills. It was built after the Great Fire of July AD 64, which devastated a large part of the centre of Rome and gave the Emperor the occasion to fulfill a long-fostered wish, i.e. that of connecting his properties (forming more or less a series of horti) with the official palace on the Palatine. It has a depth of 55 to 60 meters and its actual length is around two hundred meters. Some hundred and fifty rooms have been preserved. The height of the rooms varies between ten and eleven meters.
In this study, the authors have thoroughly documented the various decorations of walls and vaults in the building underneath the Baths of Trajan. This edifice was part of Nero’s Domus Aurea, situated in the Augustan Regio III alongside the southern slope of the Colle Oppio in the modern Parco delle Terme di Traiano. This building was a large pavilion within Nero’s properties which extended over the Oppius and Esquiline hills. It was built after the Great Fire of July AD 64, which devastated a large part of the centre of Rome and gave the Emperor the occasion to fulfill a long-fostered wish, i.e. that of connecting his properties (forming more or less a series of horti) with the official palace on the Palatine. It has a depth of 55 to 60 metres and its actual length is around twohundred metres. Some hundred and fifty rooms have been preserved. The height of the rooms varies between ten and eleven metres.
- By (author) P.G.P. Meyboom
- By (author) E.M. Moormann
"This book offers an important contribution to the understanding of the Domus Aurea decoration both as a valuable testimony of the traditional Fourth Style's systems and its more distinctive innovative expressions, formed within the specific context of the pavilion, where decoration indeed defined hierarchy." -- Hariclia Brecoulaki, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2014.07.29
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