Intimità a Pompei : riservatezza, condivisione e prestigio negli ambienti ad alcova di Pompei / Anna Anguissola.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anguissola, Anna.

Series:

Image & context ; v. 8.

Image & context, 1868-4777 ; v. 8

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Domestic--Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city).

Architecture, Domestic.

Architecture--Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city).

Architecture.

Architecture, Roman--Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city).

Architecture, Roman.

Dwellings--Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city).

Dwellings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (682 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, c2010.

Language Note:

Italian

Summary:

This book revolves around the shaping of Roman domestic space and cultural issues of privacy and representativeness. At the core is a set of lavish rooms where layout, architecture and décor bespeak the presence of one or two beds suitable for sleep or daytime rest. For the first time, the author restores the rich contextual readings regarding the dense network of location, architecture, accessibility, lighting, landscape, decoration. In Pompeian houses alcove cubicula were among the key reception rooms. Their images acted as prime symbols of power, as real weapons in strategies of distinction. Luxury, lifestyle, prestige, and the debates around them seem to be primarily related to the design of these comparatively small environments. No other type of room shows such quick adaptation to the most up-to-date trends, owing to a series of real revolutions in fashion first developed for lavish patrician residences, then spread among medium-, later even small-size abodes throughout town. In the realm of domestic life, alcove rooms constitute a sound source for inquiring into the different tastes of Pompeii's various social groups. Defined by financial means and social affluence, their tastes ranged from aesthetics of luxury to an ordinary reception of trivialized clichés.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Indice

Tavole I

Abbreviazioni, riferimenti, avvertenze

Premessa

I. Forme e tempi dell'intimità

II. Persone, oggetti e attività nel cubiculum: le fonti letterarie

III. L'architettura dei cubicula nelle case di Pompei

IV. I cubicula nel percorso della domus

Tavole II

V. Dentro al cubiculum: immagini e quotidianità

VI. Epilogo

Summary

VIII. Appendice

Tavole III

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-16592-9

9786613165923

3-11-024090-4

OCLC:

753969743