Date Clues

An interesting clue for the date is the obelisk reproduced on the [approfondimenti id="33404" testo_link="spine"] of the [approfondimenti id="33407" testo_link="Circus Maximus"], which decorates the floor mosaic of the [approfondimenti id="33419" testo_link="biapsidal hall"], known for the dynamic s...
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The Golden Age: Hypotheses about the Villa’s period of construction

The scenes depicted in the mosaics of the Villa Romana del Casale not only bring us closer to the profile of its Dominus, they also suggest some questions still unresolved by scholars. The majority believe that the late antiquity building and its mosaic decoration were carried out in a single phase...
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Semi-Public rooms

A room for semi-public use, on the other hand, had to have the quadrangular [approfondimenti id="33328" testo_link="peristyle"], the large portico, embellished with columns, on whose perimeter the rooms of the main nucleus of the villa overlook. From this area of connection and passage begins the de...
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The public rooms of the Villa

The sequence of the official places unfolds from the monumental entrance towards the [approfondimenti id="33315" testo_link="vestibule"] and the southern part of the quadrangular [approfondimenti id="33328" testo_link="peristyle"] to the [approfondimenti id="33752" testo_link="biapsidal corridor"] o...
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The composition of the spaces

Starting from the [approfondimenti id="33349" testo_link="monumental portal"] and the [approfondimenti id="33355" testo_link="thermal baths"], we go up one level to the [approfondimenti id="33328" testo_link="peristyle"], through the [approfondimenti id="33315" testo_link="vestibule"], and then even...
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The layout of the rooms

The layout of the late antiquity domus on three large levels, which follow the nature of the terrain, cannot overlook the importance of the duration of the works that created the mosaics and architectural scenes.Some clues give rise to the assumption that it was executed with no initial unitary proj...
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The rooms of the Villa, a reflection of its owner

The rooms and scenes depicted in the mosaics of the Villa Romana del Casale eloquently interpret the profile that would have distinguished the figure of the Dominus, so much so as to validate some of the theories suggested over the years by archaeologists.As a matter of fact, it is plausible to say ...
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