Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 13: House of Augustus
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Collection:
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Archivision Base to Module 13
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Preferred Title:
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House of Augustus
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Alternate Title:
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Domus Augusti
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Image View:
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Public rooms on east side of peristyle; north of the ramp, a large hall; four bases in their original positions supported columns which held up the ceiling
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Creator:
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Augustus, Emperor of Rome (Roman (ancient) patron, 63 BCE-14 CE)
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Location:
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site: Rome, Lazio, Italy
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Location Note:
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Palatine Hill; Via dei Cerchi, 81
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GPS:
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+41.888333+12.486667
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Date:
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ca. 36 BCE-14 CE (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Roman (ancient)
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Style Period:
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Imperial (Roman); Second Style
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Work Type 1:
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house
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Classification:
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Architecture and City Planning
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Material:
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stone; brick; frescoes
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Technique:
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construction (assembling); fresco painting (technique)
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Subjects:
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rulers and leaders; Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 63 B.C.-14 A.D.
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Description:
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After being awarded tribunica potestas for life in 23 BCE, Octavian decided to buy the house of Quintus Hortensius on the Palatine and made it his primary place of residence; it lay west of the Temple of Apollo. He expanded it after his victory at Actium. The comparative modesty of the Domus Augusti was in keeping with the return to traditional ideals promoted during the Augustan period. While the house itself is conspicuously modest, the paintings (in situ) are magnificent. The rooms are painted in a style similar to the Second Style seen in Pompeii. Those containing the most spectacular wall paintings are known by their recurring motifs: stanza delle maschere (room of the masks), the stanza dei pini (room of the pines), and the stanza delle prospettive (room of perspective). In antiquity this residence contained two levels, each leading to a garden courtyard. The bottom floor is not accessible today, but it is possible to make out the basin of a fountain and the rooms beyond it that were paved in colored marble. (Source: World Monuments Fund; https://www.wmf.org/)
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Image Description:
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This large hall has the charateristics of a Tetrastyle Oecus. The ceiling would have covered the central vault. With the bright frescoes and inlaid marble floor, this was the most important room in the complex.
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module Twelve
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Identifier:
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1A3-R-R-HOA-B23
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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