Title Designing for luxury on the Bay of Naples : villas and landscapes (c.100 BCE-79 CE) / Mantha Zarmakoupi

Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 315 pages) : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white) Series Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation. Contents Roman luxury villas: Introduction, historiography, and scope -- The cultural phenomenon of luxury villas -- Historiography -- Scope and methodology of this study -- The architectural language of luxury villas -- Case studies -- Villa of the Papyri -- Villa Oplontis A -- Villa Arianna A -- Villa Arianna B -- Villa San Marco -- Conclusion -- Porticus and cryptoporticus -- Porticus in public architecture -- Terminology -- A daily life of educated leisure -- Practicalities: circulation and access -- Conclusion -- Porticoed gardens -- Perisrylium-garden: architectural vocabulary -- A new architectural language: peristylium structure + pleasure garden -- A new design language of architecture, art, and landscape -- Table -- Table - Water features: Euripi, natationes, and nymphaea -- Water supply and water-mania -- Water as luxury -- The architectural embodiment of water's mythological and symbolic associations -- The nymphaeum -- Nile and Euripus -- Water as a stage for swimming, bathing, and sunbathing -- Water as a stage for reality: the pools (natationes?) -- Water as a stage for mythology: decoration of water settings -- Conclusion -- Triclinia and dining facilities -- The 'ingredients' of the luxury dinner parties -- Transformation of the dining facilities: staging the entertainment -- Dining and bathing -- Staging the landscape -- Conclusion -- Designing for luxury -- Approaches to the architectural design of the Roman luxury house -- Analysis of the architectural design of Roman villas -- No 'core' -- Perforated architectural body -- Architecture of the senses -- The connective tissue -- Conclusions Summary This study explores Roman luxury villa architecture and the Roman luxury villa lifestyle to shed light on the villas' design as a dynamic process related to cultural, social, and environmental factors. Roman villas expressed a novel architectural language which was developed by designers appropriating the existing stylistic and thematic vocabularies of Hellenistic and Roman architecture. Zarmakoupi seeks to describe and explain the ways in which this architecture accommodated the lifestyle of educated leisure and an appreciation of the Roman landscape, and how, in doing so, it became a cultural phenomenon and a crucial element in the construction of Roman cultural identity. In their effort to accommodate the Greek style, Romans created something completely unprecedented in the history of architecture Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Architecture, Domestic -- Italy -- Naples -- History Architecture, Roman -- Italy -- Naples Landscapes -- Social aspects -- Italy -- Naples -- History Landscapes -- Social aspects -- Rome Architecture and Planning. Architecture, Domestic Architecture, Roman Buildings Landscapes -- Social aspects Social conditions Architektur Hellenisierung Lebensstil Oberschicht Villa Art, Architecture & Applied Arts. Architecture. SUBJECT Naples (Italy) -- Buildings, structures, etc Naples (Italy) -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98002564 Rome -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95006770 Subject Italy -- Naples Rome (Empire) Golf von Neapel Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191808548 0191808547

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