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A late 19th-century artist's reimagining of an atrium in a Pompeian domus The domus included multiple rooms, indoor courtyards, gardens and beautifully painted walls that were elaborately laid out. The vestibulum ('entrance hall') led into a large central hall: the atrium , which was the focal point of the domus and contained a statue of or an ...
It was decorated in the Pompeian First Style. [2] In successive building phases, additional shops were added on its west side and a peristyle (colonnaded porticus) was added to the garden. [3] In the late Augustan period the house was converted into a hospitium, a hotel on a grand scale. A counter accessible both from the street and the atrium ...
The House of Vetti is located in region VI, near the Vesuvian Gate, bordered by the Vicolo di Mercurio and the Vicolo dei Vettii. The house is one of the largest domus in Pompeii, spanning the entire southern section of block 15. [3] The plan is fashioned in a typical Roman domus with the exception of a tablinum, which is not
The Pompejanum (or Pompeiianum) is an idealised replica of a Roman villa, located on the high banks of the river Main in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, Germany.It was commissioned by King Ludwig I and built in the 1840s.
Portico and garden. The House of Julia Felix was a combination of indoor and outdoor areas built around atria, courtyards into which the main rooms opened, with enclosed gardens and private water supply; [8] Sections of the praedia allowed for indoor and outdoor seating with frescoes depicting landscapes of leisure and gardens.
Archaeologists have uncovered a tiny house in Pompeii that is filled with elaborate – and sometimes erotic – frescoes, further revealing the ornate way in which Romans decorated their homes.
The House of the Prince of Naples [1] [2] [3] is a Roman domus (townhouse) located in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii near Naples, Italy.The structure is so named because the Prince and Princess of Naples attended a ceremonial excavation of selected rooms there in 1898.
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