Starting from the late Republican period, the public buildings and residences of the Roman aristocracy were embellished with marble in white or bright colours; their use aimed to give prestige to the rooms that were covered with them, as in the most important space of the Villa del Casale, the [appr...

At the centre of the eastern side of the ambulacrum of the “great hunt”, in correspondence with the mosaic scene relating to the “land between two seas”, which symbolises Rome, the unifying city of peoples, is the entrance to a grandiose rectangular [approfondimenti id="33763" testo_link="ap...