Intimità a Pompei: Riservatezza, condivisione e prestigio negli ambienti ad alcova di Pompei

Anna Anguissola

Published by De Gruyter 2011

Intimità a Pompei

Riservatezza, condivisione e prestigio negli ambienti ad alcova di Pompei

Privacy in Pompeii

Anna Anguissola

Volume 8 in the series Image & Context

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110240900

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About this book

This book revolves around the shaping of Roman domestic space and cultural issues of privacy and representativeness. At the core is a set of lavish rooms where layout, architecture and décor bespeak the presence of one or two beds suitable for sleep or daytime rest. For the first time, the author restores the rich contextual readings regarding the dense network of location, architecture, accessibility, lighting, landscape, decoration. In Pompeian houses alcove cubicula were among the key reception rooms. Their images acted as prime symbols of power, as real weapons in strategies of distinction. Luxury, lifestyle, prestige, and the debates around them seem to be primarily related to the design of these comparatively small environments. No other type of room shows such quick adaptation to the most up-to-date trends, owing to a series of real revolutions in fashion first developed for lavish patrician residences, then spread among medium-, later even small-size abodes throughout town. In the realm of domestic life, alcove rooms constitute a sound source for inquiring into the different tastes of Pompeii's various social groups. Defined by financial means and social affluence, their tastes ranged from aesthetics of luxury to an ordinary reception of trivialized clichés.

Author / Editor information

Anna Anguissola, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität München.

Reviews

"Em suma, o estudo agora apresentado vale pela qualidade da investigação que traduz, pelas conclusões a que chega, mas também pela inovação, pois não se limitando a ficar pela análise literária ou pela leitura iconográfica e integrando a observação e sistematização arqueológica permite uma interpretação mais abrangente e pertinentemente globalizante do que as que outros estudos sobre os espaços da intimidade, lato sensu, nos habituaram."
Nuno Simões Rodrigues in: Cadmo. Revista de História Antiga 26 (2017), 242-243

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	I
Indice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	IX
Tavole I Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XIII
Abbreviazioni, riferimenti, avvertenze Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XVII
Premessa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. Forme e tempi dell’intimità Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
II. Persone, oggetti e attività nel cubiculum: le fonti letterarie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
III. L’architettura dei cubicula nelle case di Pompei Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
IV. I cubicula nel percorso della domus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Tavole II Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
V. Dentro al cubiculum: immagini e quotidianità Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
VI. Epilogo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389
Summary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	423
VIII. Appendice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	439
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(Deutsch)

Language: Italian
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Libraries, Institutes
Pages
- Front matter: 18
- Main content: 664
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 300
- Coloured Illustrations: 40
Keywords: Pompeii; Roman Domestic Architecture; Roman Housing; Archaeology of Built Environment; Social Archaeology

eBook

Published: December 15, 2010
ISBN: 9783110240900

Hardcover

Published: November 16, 2010
ISBN: 9783110240894