Roman domestic architecture and interiors? What was
the home’s relationship to the outside world and how was interior space organized? What types of objects, materials and motifs were used in decorating and ornamenting the interior? How do these interiors reflect various aspects Greek and Roman society, including issues of class, gender, and religion? What types of sources help us understand ancient Greek and Roman interiors? Knossos, plan of the Palace of Minos, c. 2150/2000–c. 1300 BC Knossos, North Propylaea, view from the south-west, c. 16th century BC Knossos, Palace of Minos, court and staircase, east residential quarter, late 14th century BC Knossos, Palace of Minos, Throne Room, late 15th century BC Knossos, Palace of Minos, Throne Room, late 15th century BC Knossos, Palace of Minos, Bull-Jumping Fresco, East Wing, c. 1600- 1400 BC Knossos, Palace of Minos, Dolphin Frieze, Queen’s Apartments, c. 1500 BC Knossos, Palace of Minos, "Prince of Lilies" or "Priest-king” relief, Corridor of Processions Stirrup jar with octopus, ca. 1200– Rhyton in the form of a bull's 1100 B.C.; Mycenaean head, ca. 1450–1400 B.C.; Minoan, Crete Architectural orders: (a) Greek Doric; (b) Roman Doric; (c) Ionic; (d) Corinthian; (e) Composite; (f) Tuscan; Parts of the orders: (i) column; (ii) entablature; (iii) base; (iv) shaft; (v) capital; (vi) architrave; (vii) frieze; (viii) cornice; (ix) fluting; (x) neck; (xi) echinus; (xii) abacus; (xiii) guttae; (xiv) taenia; (xv) triglyph; (xvi) metope; (xvii) mutules; (xviii) cyma recta; (xix) plinth; (xx) scotia; (xxi) torus; (xxii) egg and dart; (xxiii) volutes; (xxiv) fascia; (xxv) dentils; (xxvi) astragal; (xxvii) acanthus; (xxviii) caliculi; (xxix) modillion; (xxx) cyma reversa; (xxxi) brackets Greek temple components: (a) anta; (b) cella; (c) pronaos; (d) peristyle; (e) stylobate; (f) opisthodomos; (g) adyton; (h) intercolumniation Ancient Olympia, reconstructed site plan Temple of Zeus: Reconstruction of the East Facade (top) and West Facade (bottom); pediment sculptural groups Heracles and the Cretan Bull: fourth metope over the West porch, temple of Zeus at Olympia. Marble, ca 460 BC Temple of Zeus, Olympia, c. 470 - 456 BCE. Watercolor interior reconstruction, Victor Laloux, 1883. Roman Seated Zeus, marble and bronze (restored), following the type established by Phidias, Hermitage Museum Acropolis at Athens, view from the south-west Parthenon, Athens, Greece, 447-438 BC Parthenon Plan Reconstruction of the Parthenon, Athens, Greece Reconstruction of the west pediment of the Parthenon
East pediment sculpture: in situ, Parthenon; on display at the British
Museum Reconstruction drawing of the pronaos of the Parthenon
Poseidon and Apollo, east
frieze, Parthenon Reconstruction of the cella of the Varvakeion Athena, a reduced- Parthenon with the Athena Parthenos scale Roman copy of the Athena by Phidias Parthenos, 2nd century A.D. Greek domestic architecture, house types: (a) megaron or prostas type, Priene, c. 350 BC onwards; (b) pastas type with peristyle court, Olynthos isolated villa, 4th century BC; (c) pastas type, Olynthos, c. 432 BC; (d) pastas type with peristyle court, Delos, 2nd century BC Olynthos, house of the pastas type, late 5th century BC to mid-4th; reconstruction of courtyard looking north House of the Dolphins, Delos, 2nd century BC Detail, mosaic floor of the House of the Dolphins, Delos Geometric pattern mosaic; Dionysos riding a panther, House of the Masks, Delo,s 2nd half of 2nd century B.C Wall painting from the exterior of a house in the Skardana Quarter, Delos Greek black-figure lekythos, c. 550–530 BC, attributed to the Amasis Painter Greek red-figure lekythos, c. Greek red-figure bell krater, c. 460 BC, 480 BC, Attributed to the Attributed to the Danae Painter Brygos Painter Reconstruction of a Greek klismos chair Detail of a Greek white-ground lekythos, mid-5th century, BC, attributed to the Achilles Painter Detail of a fresco of a symposium, North Wall, Tomb of the Diver, Paestum, c. 475 BCE Domus Aurea, Rome, begun AD 64, plan of the domestic wing: (a) columned court with fountain; (b) cryptoporticus; (c) octagonal hall Wall frescoes from the Room of the Landscapes, Domus Aurea, 64-69 CE Painted vault, Domus Aurea, 64-69 CE Model of Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, 118-134 CE Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, Mosaic Emblema of drinking doves, central floor decoration in an area of the Accademia, c. 138 CE Tragicomic masks from Hadrian’s Villa, 2nd century Pavement in opus sectile, Small Thermae, Hadrian’s Villa, 2nd century Mosaic floor from Hadrain’s Villa, c.120-138 CE Plan of the imperial fora, Rome Plan of the Basilica Ulpia, 98-112 CE Reconstruction of the interior of the Basilica Ulpia, G. Gatteschi, 1906 Reconstructions of the interior of the Basilica Ulpia, Julien Guadet, 1867 Pantheon, Rome, c. 125 AD Plan and Section of the Pantheon, Rome, c. 125 AD Pantheon, Rome, c. 125 CE Interior of the dome of the Pantheon Baths of Caracalla, c. 212-235 CE Model of the Baths of Caracalla Plan of the Baths of Caracalla c. 212-235 CE Restored view of Frigidarium, Baths of Caracalla, E. E. Viollet- le-Duc, 1863 Mosaic floors, Baths of Caracalla, c. 211- 217 AD Mosaics with Athletes from the Baths of Caracalla, c. 220 CE Cubiculum (bedroom) from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale, c. 40–30 BCE Detail of the wall painting in the cubiculum (bedroom) from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale, c. 40–30 BCE Garland with mask, basket, and bucrania (ceremonial bulls' heads): From Room L of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale, c. 40–30 BCE Seated woman playing a kithara: From Room H of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale, c. 40–30 BCE Pompeii, plan of the site: (a) forum; (b) Temple of Fortuna Augusta; (c) Temple of Isis; (d) amphitheatre; (e) theatre; (f) odeion; (g) Stabian Baths; (h) Forum Baths; (i) Central Baths; (j) great palaestra; (k) House of Sallust; (l) House of the Faun; (m) House of Julius Polybius; (n) House of the Silver Wedding; (o) House of the Menander; (p) House of the Labyrinth; (q) Villa of the Mysteries; (r) Temple of Venus; (s) House of the Gilded Cupids; (t) House of the Vettii; (u) House of Loreius Tiburtinus; (v) House of Julia Felix; (w) Villa of Diomedes Plan of the House of the Vettii, Pompeii Reconstruction of the courtyard of the House of the Vettii, Pompeii Erotic fresco, House of the Vettii, Pompeii
Wall painting of Hercules as a young
child, House of the Vettii, Pompeii Plan and reconstruction of the interior of the House of the Faun, Pompeii Alexander Mosaic, House of the Faun, Pompeii Floor mosaic of sea fauna with octopus and lobster fighting, House of the Faun, Pompeii