5. Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous: Houses and Villas at Pompeii
Roman Architecture (HSAR 252)
Professor Kleiner discusses domestic architecture at Pompeii from its beginnings in the fourth and third centuries B.C. to the eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79. She describes the plan of the ideal domus italica and features two residences that conform to that layout. She then presents the so-called Hellenized domus that incorporates elements of Greek domestic architecture, especially the peristyle court with columns. The primary example is the famous House of the Faun with its tetrastyle atrium, double peristyles, and floor mosaic of the battle between Alexander the Great and Darius of Persia at Issus, a Roman copy of an original Greek painting. She concludes by highlighting the suburban Villa of the Mysteries and notes the distinction between plans of Roman houses and those of Roman villas.
00:00 - Chapter 1. Introduction and the Ideal Domus Italica
15:28 - Chapter 2. Early Pompeian Houses and the Ideal Hellenized Domus
25:07 - Chapter 3. Hellenized Houses in Pompeii
38:32 - Chapter 4. Chapter 4. The House of the Faun
54:00 - Chapter 5. Additional Pompeian Houses
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This course was recorded in Spring 2009.
Palatine Hill Walking Tour in 4K
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00:10 - Main Gate (Old Farnese Gardens Main gate)
01:08 - Aqua Claudia Aqueduct
03:16 - Entrance to Domus Severiana
05:38 - Entrance to the Palatine Stadium
12:42 - Entrance to Domus Augustana (Bottom Level)
19:28 - The 2nd Level the Palatine Stadium
22:44 - Entrance to Domus Augustant (Upper Level)
25:35 - Look out towards Circus Maximus
27:00 - Walk through of Flavian Palace
31:44 - Walk near the House of Augustus
36:05 - Terrace Viewpoint
37:10 - Walk above the Palace of Tiberius (Garden)
40:18 - Terrace Viewpoint looking out over the Forum
42:55 - Walk through the remains of Farnese Gardens
44:55 - Walk into the Cryptoporticus
47:30 - Fountain of the Rain
50:00 - Arch of Titus
50:45 - Walking below the Temple of Jupiter
52:20 - View of the Colosseum
55:12 - Exit through the Farnese Gardens Gate
Thanks to Cassius Ahenogarbus and Wikipedia for the use of the thumbnail image.
Attribution: By Cassius Ahenobarbus (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 ( via Wikimedia Commons
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The Great Pompeii Project: New Life for the Dead City
Archaeology professor Massimo Osanna delivered a lecture titled The Great Pompeii Project: New Life for the Dead City, hosted by the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World. Osanna's lecture focused on the Great Pompeii Project, an initiative sponsored by the Italian government to preserve the archaeological area of Pompeii, the ancient city that was decimated by a nearby supervolcano nearly 2,000 years ago. Osanna, who teaches at University of Basilicata, is the superintendent of the archaeological heritage of Pompeii.
Napoli - Pompei e la casa di Marco Fabio Rufo nel volume di Grimaldi (28.11.14)
- Napoli. “Pompei Insula Occidentalis La casa di Marco Fabio Rufo, studi e ricerche”. E’ il volume a cura di Mario Grimaldi presentato al Teatrino di Corte del Palazzo Reale di Napoli nell’ambito del convegno I giacimenti culturali: il nostro passato è il nostro futuro, promosso dall'Unione Industriali di Napoli in collaborazione con la Soprintendenza per i Beni architettonici, paesaggistici, storici, artistici ed etnoantropologici per Napoli e provincia.
Un importante momento di discussione sull'investimento culturale e sull'iniziativa privata come strumenti per agganciare la ripresa e creare crescita economica e nuova occupazione e sarà anche l'occasione per la presentazione di numerose opportunità imprenditoriali legate al possibile sviluppo economico del territorio circostante il sito di Pompei.
L’opera rappresenta la seconda pubblicazione della Collana Pompei della Casa Editrice Valtrend, diretta da Masanori Aoyagi e Umberto Pappalardo. Una raccolta completa degli studi e ricerche condotte nell'area della Casa di Marco Fabio Rufo a Pompei con un ricco catalogo di materiali di uso comune e arredo. Il complesso della Casa di Marco Fabio Rufo rappresenta uno degli esempi più insigni nel panorama architettonico di Pompei, disposto su quattro livelli abitativi digradanti verso il lato occidentale e con più di 80 ambienti, si propone come il modello urbano della villa.
Il giardino, di complessivi 1.581 metri quadri, è situato ad ovest della casa, a ridosso delle mura urbane. Nel volume sono stati raccolti gli studi e le ricerche condotti nella Casa di Marco Fabio Rufo dal momento della sua scoperta, nel 1960, sino ai più recenti scavi del 2013 condotti nell'area del giardino.
Architetture, mosaici e pitture parietali sono tra gli esempi più belli di tutta Pompei e tra i più pregiati del mondo romano. Gli elementi emersi dallo scavo e presenti nel catalogo offrono la possibilità di riscoprire tutti i materiali utilizzati all'interno di una casa e i vari cambiamenti da essa subiti sino all'eruzione del 79 d.C.
Il valore aggiunto di quest'opera è il carattere di forte multidisciplinarietà caratteristico del metodo di ricerca applicato alla Casa di Marco Fabio Rufo. Lo scopo è quello di aprire per la prima volta le porte di una delle abitazioni più imponenti di Pompei a tutti coloro che ne vorranno godere. (28.11.14)
L' eruzione del Vesuvio del 79 d.C. che distrusse Pompei ed Ercolano - 2.2 Le conseguenze
La seconda parte della seconda di tre lezioni riguardanti l'eruzione del 79. d.C. del Vesuvio raccontata da Lisetta Giacomelli. Questa lezione è dedicata alle conseguenze dell'eruzione sugli edifici e gli essere umani.
Second part of the second of three lessons concerning the eruption of 79. d.C. of Vesuvius told by Lisetta Giacomelli. This video concerns the consequences of the eruption on building and humans.
The Frescoes from the Villa of the Farnesina: Triclinium C, National Roman Museum (manortiz)
... si entra nella Sala del Tricilinio (9,60 metri per 5) che prevedeva tre letti ai lati una grande mensa centrale. Quello esposto è il triclinio invernale che, come indicava Vitruvio, ha le pareti di colore scuro per mantenere il calore dai raggi e a contenere lo sporco dei bracieri. E' straordinario - dice Paris - è un sistema monocromo apparentemente semplice dove spicca un impianto architettonico fantastico, le colonnine esili tengono le cariatidi, che ritmano le pareti sostenendo ghirlandine e inquadrando paesaggi a campo libero. La parte descrittiva è affidata al fregio.
A mio avviso - spiega ancora Paris - si tratta di scene popolari. Siccome ricorre una figura in trono che sembra la più importante, si è sempre pensato che fossero scene di giudizio. Ma per me è improbabile. Piuttosto scene di vita popolare, di vita vissuta. Io ho notato anche dei giochi gladiatori e mi riserbo di approfondirli, aprendo una nuova ipotesi.
Sul pavimento, spiccano grossi frammenti di mosaici policromi di cubi e meandri prospettici
(30 giugno 2010)
The Frescoes from the Villa of the Farnesina
The Villa of the Farnesina, sumptuous residence of the Augustan age, was brought back to light in Trastevere in 1879, during the regulation works of the banks of the Tiber.
The remains of the Villa were only partially explored and then destroyed, but the elevated quality of the decorations required the salvage of the frescoes, mosaics and stuccoes, since preserved in the Museo Nazionale Romano. In the exhibition space of Palazzo Massimo the stripped decorations have been recomposed within rooms of the original dimensions.
The goal was to recreate, to the extent possible, the sequence of the visual perceptions of the Ancient age, walking through the long gallery of the cryptoporticus (hidden portico) as far as the garden, on which faced the winter triclinium (dining room) and two cubicola (bedchambers) with vermillion walls, thence reaching, through another corridor, a third cubiculum.
The diverse references to the Egyptian world present in the decorations of the villa can be read as a celebration of the conquest of Egypt. In fact the owner of the residence is probably, according to reliable hypotheses, to be identified as the general Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa himself, author of the victory at Actium. The frescoes, exemplars of the great painting of the Imperial age in Rome, are ascribable to the final phase of the Second style.
21. Making Mini Romes on the Western Frontier
Roman Architecture (HSAR 252)
Professor Kleiner explores the architecture of the western provinces of the Roman Empire, focusing on sites in what are now North Italy, France, Spain, and Croatia. Her major objective is to characterize Romanization, the way in which the Romans provide amenities to their new colonies while, at the same time, transforming them into miniature versions of the city of Rome. Professor Kleiner discusses the urban design of two Augustan towns before proceeding to an investigation of a variety of such established Roman building types as theaters, temples, and aqueducts. The well-preserved Theater at Orange, the Maison Carrée at Nîmes, and the unparalleled aqueducts at Nîmes (the Pont-du-Gard) and Segovia are highlighted. The lecture concludes with an overview of imperial and private arches and tombs in the western provinces, among them the controversial three-bayed arch at Orange. The Trophy of Augustus at La Turbie serves as a touchstone for the Roman West, as it commemorates Augustus' subjugation of the Alpine tribes, clearing the way for Rome to create new cities with a distinctive Roman stamp.
00:00 - Chapter 1. Roman Colonies in the West
10:37 - Chapter 2. Urban Planning in North Italy and the South of France
20:55 - Chapter 3. Augustan Temples at Vienne and Nimes
32:33 - Chapter 4. The Pont du Gard and the Aqueduct at Segovia
47:33 - Chapter 5. Augustus Pacification of the Alpine Tribes and his Trophy at La Turbie
01:02:17 - Chapter 6. Funerary and Commemorative Architecture
Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website:
This course was recorded in Spring 2009.
Cryptoporticus, by Mike Finley
Walking through the underground Roman market in ancient Arles
Les Cryptoportiques
(a subterranean market in Arles, built during Roman times)
These are the stations of the scourge
the pillar where the spirit spurts
The cathedral embedded in the mine
has been silent now for some time
The cobblestones are always damp
From the place where stalagmites stand
There the cockroach Orson Welles
scrambles over a hill of shells
There the bazaar of shiny foil
lamps sputtering their last drops of oil
Dank as the dungeon and damp as a cave
No swinging ball of lead can raze
There the architect led on a leash
Drawn into darkness like a beast
There the hippodrome's flaking hoar
and sawdust and horse piss and hair
There is your empire, sunken and gone
It ripples like a pebble in your palm
Tivoli- Rome tour guide (ALex) Hadrian's Villa Tour
Private Rome Tour Guide
We continue our tour to Villa Adriana. We are in the portico with Peschiera. It is a large porch and a large rectangular tank, around which towered numerous statues, as indicated by the presence of niches. Interesting is the gallery located on the porch where we still observe signatures of visitors and artists. Between the porch and the swimming pool you can see a corridor paved with mosaics. Behind the portico with Peschiera stood the imperial residence, with reception rooms, smaller rooms, peristyle and cryptoporticus for walking, and a large garden for lunches during the summer, recognizable in the adjacent Nymphaeum-Stadium.
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walking through the Neronian Cryptoporticus
In the Roman Forum/Palatine. It is an underground corridor, 130 meters in length.
3. Technology and Revolution in Roman Architecture
Roman Architecture (HSAR 252)
Professor Kleiner discusses the revolution in Roman architecture resulting from the widespread adoption of concrete in the late second and first centuries B.C. She contrasts what she calls innovative Roman architecture with the more traditional buildings already surveyed and documents a shift from the use of concrete for practical purposes to an exploration of its expressive possibilities. The lecture concludes with a discussion of the Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia at Palestrina, an impressive terraced complex that uses concrete to transform a mountain into a work of architecture, with ramps and stairs leading from one level to the next and porticoes revealing panoramic views of nature and of man-made architectural forms.
00:00 - Chapter 1. Roman Concrete and the Revolution in Roman Architecture
13:26 - Chapter 2. The First Experiments in Roman Concrete Construction
25:11 - Chapter 3. Sanctuaries and the Expressive Potential of Roman Concrete Construction
41:28 - Chapter 4. Innovations in Concrete at Rome: The Tabularium and The Theater of Marcellus
56:56 - Chapter 5. Concrete Transforms a Mountain at Palestrina
Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website:
This course was recorded in Spring 2009.