LIGHT, SPACE AND AFFLUENT TASTE: ANCIENT POMPEIAN HOUSES AND THEIR DECORATION

While Pompeian houses vary in size, ground plan, opulence and specific decorative schemes, they do tend to exemplify certain consistent design motivations. The owner of an urban Pompeian house — or domus — of whatever size, seems to aim towards creating a certain kind of domestic space. This paper i...

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Main Author: S. Masters
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: Stellenbsoch University, Department of Ancient Studies 2012-03-01
Series:Akroterion
Online Access:http://akroterion.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/32