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A late 19th-century artist's reimagining of an atrium in a Pompeian domus Illustration of the atrium in the building of the baths in the Roman villa of "Els Munts", close to Tarraco. In a domus, a large house in ancient Roman architecture, the atrium was the open central court with enclosed rooms on all sides.
An atrium is a large open space located within a building. It is often used to light a central circulation or public area by daylight admitted through a glass roof or wall. Atria provide some daylight to adjacent working areas, but the amount is often small and does not penetrate very far. [ 19 ]
In atrium A, 33 white terracotta panels by Peter Makolies (* 1936) are installed. Above the fourth floor is a frieze by the Leipzig painter Bruno Griesel (* 1960) with the theme "Psychology of Time". In courtyard B, the previous buildings in Nikolaistrasse (left) and Reichsstrasse (right) are depicted in large format on Meissen tiles based on a ...
House of the Corinthian Atrium, in Herculaneum. The six pillars are stuccoed tufa, repaired with brick. This atrium is halfway to being a peristyle; planters flank a grassy area. The central marble fountain was fed by an aqueduct, making the original purpose of the atrium, a structure for gathering rainwater, superfluous.
Atrium (plural: atria) The inner court of a Roman house; in a multi-story building, a toplit covered court rising through all stories. Attic A small top story within a roof above the uppermost ceiling. The story above the main entablature of a classical façade.
Several rooms are decorated in the late Third Style including the atrium, tablinum and bedroom 5. [2] Roger Ling considers these to be the locus classicus of the late Third Style and dates them to about 35 CE to 45 CE. [3] The atrium is the simplest [3] with black fields divided by golden yellow bands. Each field has a small figural detail in ...
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The atrium itself was decorated in the Second Style with wide red panels interspersed with black panels painted with slender candelabra supporting garlands terminated with vases or crowns. The busts of seven gods painted within medallions embellished the large red fields. A curtain separated part of the atrium into a space deemed to be an "ala ...