DOMUS ROMANA

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DOMUS ROMANA

• Discite de ratione domum aedificandorum
• Aedificate suis laboribus materiaque domum
  romanum.
• Demonstrate amicis et sociis aedificium vestrum

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The house is constructed around a central axis
of three major rooms Atrium ? Tablinum
?Peristylium/Hortus
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Other rooms are to the side of these main rooms
-Atrium ? cubicula alae lararium andron-
Tablinum ? may be next to a triclinium-Peristyliu
m ? culina cublicula exhedra oecus
latrinacella servorum cellarium triclinium
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What do I see first?
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• The atrium-tablinum-peristylium axis creates a
  good first
• impression on a visitor to the domus.

Can you tell what rooms these are?
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• Coming in through the fauces, you open the ianua
• and see the grand atrium, with its columns and
  impluvium

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Through the tablinum, you can see the many
columns and green plants of the peristylium.

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• Behind the pool, curtains or sliding doors
• open onto the tablinum
• with the paterfamilias work table or reading
  couch

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Thus, the houses MOST IMPRESSIVE rooms are all
visible from the moment you enter.
J. Paul Getty Villa Malibu, CA
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Décor Walls Frescoespaintings done on
wet plaster not separate in a picture frame,
but an actual image ON the wall
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Floors Mosaics (images composed of
hundreds of small tiles)
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Statues especially of ones ancestors (the
Imagines)
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