Le decorazioni dipinte e marmoree della domus aurea di Nerone a Roma / Paul G.P. Meyboom & Eric M. Moormann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meyboom, P. G. P., author.

Moormann, Eric M., author.

Contributor:

Lawrence H. Herring Memorial Fund.

Series:

Bulletin antieke beschaving. Supplement ; 0165-9367 20.

Babesch : annual papers on Mediterranean archaeology, 0165-9367 ; Supplement 20

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Rome (Italy)--Antiquities.

Rome (Italy).

Italy--Rome.

Nero, Emperor of Rome, 37-68.

Nero.

Domus Aurea Neronis (Rome, Italy).

Excavations (Archaeology)--Italy--Rome.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Antiquities.

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations (some color), plans (some color) ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leuven : Peeters, 2013.

Language Note:

Text in Italian, with summary in English.

Summary:

In this study we have thoroughly documented the various decorations of walls and vaults in the building underneath the Baths of Trajan. This edifice was part of to 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.

Contents:

Parte I: Testo. L'edificio sul colle Oppio: storia della scoperta e degli scavi ; Status quaestionis e silloge delle ricerche sull'edificio sull'Oppio ; Proposta per una cronologia del padiglione e delle decorazioni ; Le decorazioni dipinte: stili pittorici e botteghe ; Rapporti fra le decorazioni e le funzioni degli ambienti ; Le decorazioni parietali in rapporto con il IV Stile pompeiano ; Le decorazioni delle volte ; Descrizione degli ambienti e delle lora decorazioni

Parte II: Illustrazioni.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lawrence H. Herring Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9042925450

9789042925458

OCLC:

828076549