Overview
This book revolves around the shaping of Roman domestic space and cultural issues of privacy and representativeness. At the core is a set of lavish rooms where layout, architecture and décor bespeak the presence of one or two beds suitable for sleep or daytime rest. For the first time, the author restores the rich contextual readings regarding the dense network of location, architecture, accessibility, lighting, landscape, decoration. In Pompeian houses alcove cubicula were among the key reception rooms. Their images acted as prime symbols of power, as real weapons in strategies of distinction. Luxury, lifestyle, prestige, and the debates around them seem to be primarily related to the design of these comparatively small environments. No other type of room shows such quick adaptation to the most up-to-date trends, owing to a series of real revolutions in fashion first developed for lavish patrician residences, then spread among medium-, later even small-size abodes throughout town. In the realm of domestic life, alcove rooms constitute a sound source for inquiring into the different tastes of Pompeii's various social groups. Defined by financial means and social affluence, their tastes ranged from aesthetics of luxury to an ordinary reception of trivialized clichés.
Full Product Details
Author: Anna Anguissola (Universita Degli Studi Pisa)
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter
Volume: 8
Dimensions:
Width: 16.50cm
, Height: 4.10cm
, Length: 23.10cm
Weight: 2.041kg
ISBN: 9783110240894
ISBN 10: 3110240890
Pages: 682
Publication Date: 16 November 2010
Recommended Age: 22 years
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
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Language: Italian
Reviews
"""Em suma, o estudo agora apresentado vale pela qualidade da investiga��o que traduz, pelas conclus�es a que chega, mas tamb�m pela inova��o, pois n�o se limitando a ficar pela an�lise liter�ria ou pela leitura iconogr�fica e integrando a observa��o e sistematiza��o arqueol�gica permite uma interpreta��o mais abrangente e pertinentemente globalizante do que as que outros estudos sobre os espa�os da intimidade, lato sensu, nos habituaram."" Nuno Sim�es Rodrigues in: Cadmo. Revista de Hist�ria Antiga 26 (2017), 242-243"
Em suma, o estudo agora apresentado vale pela qualidade da investiga o que traduz, pelas conclus es a que chega, mas tamb m pela inova o, pois n o se limitando a ficar pela an lise liter ria ou pela leitura iconogr fica e integrando a observa o e sistematiza o arqueol gica permite uma interpreta o mais abrangente e pertinentemente globalizante do que as que outros estudos sobre os espa os da intimidade, lato sensu, nos habituaram. Nuno Sim es Rodrigues in: Cadmo. Revista de Hist ria Antiga 26 (2017), 242-243
Em suma, o estudo agora apresentado vale pela qualidade da investigacao que traduz, pelas conclusoes a que chega, mas tambem pela inovacao, pois nao se limitando a ficar pela analise literaria ou pela leitura iconografica e integrando a observacao e sistematizacao arqueologica permite uma interpretacao mais abrangente e pertinentemente globalizante do que as que outros estudos sobre os espacos da intimidade, lato sensu, nos habituaram. Nuno Simoes Rodrigues in: Cadmo. Revista de Historia Antiga 26 (2017), 242-243
Author Information
Anna Anguissola, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität München.
