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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.
The atrium tetrastylum has four pillars at the corners of the roof opening [14] (not common [15]) The atrium displuviatum has outwards-sloping roofs that do not collect water, [14] like most modern roofs (rare [14]) The atrium testudinatum was fully roofed-over, with another floor on top instead of an opening to the sky (very rare) [14]
It has long been customary to decorate houses and palaces with large open spaces and gardens dominated by fragrant flowers, fountains, canals, wells, ponds, [2] frescoes with mythological scenes, and marble medallions (on walls), forming ornate but harmonious shapes with the intention to represent the Garden of the Paradise as imagined by the Classical and Muslim architects.
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.
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Now add three apses on the east side opening from the three divisions, and opposite to the west put a narrow entrance porch running right across the front. Still in front put a square court. The court is the atrium and usually has a fountain in the middle under a canopy resting on pillars. The entrance porch is the narthex.
The rock-cut tomb chambers often form suites of "rooms", some quite large, which presumably resemble in part the atrium homes of the better-off Etruscans. [29] Unlike several of the necropoli, Etruscan cities have generally been built over from the Romans onwards, and houses have left little trace.
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