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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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Atrium and south wall of the tablinum. The House of Marcus Lucretius Fronto (Italian: Casa di Marco Lucrezio Frontone, [1] V.4.a) is a Roman house in Pompeii with well-preserved wall paintings in both the late Third Style as well as the Fourth Style.
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The house was originally a single symmetrical atrium house from the Samnite Period made of tufa blocks. The axially-aligned structure featured a central fauces, set between frontage shops, that lead to an atrium with compluvium and impluvium, three cubicula and alae that flanked the atrium on each side.