The architecture of the peristyle is characterised by a colonnaded portico composed of thirty-two marble or grey granite columns, placed evenly on an Attican base of white marble. The corner columns, placed on raised bases, are in Breccia di Sciro or Breccia di Settebasi, stone from the Greek island...

The importance of Vitruvius is due to his treatise on architecture: The De Architectura, a work divided into 10 books, dedicated to Augustus, was probably written between 29 and 23 BC. The work was written during the same years in which Augustus was focused on a general renovation of public buildin...

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio; his date of birth, around 80 BC and date of death, after 15 BC, are uncertain. After retiring from public life and obtaining a pension from Augustus, he devoted himself to drafting the treatise De Architectura, at the very point in time in Rome when Augustus was undertaking...

Ars Topiaria, or topiary, is a decorative technique born in ancient Rome, used for the decoration of garden plants; it consists in pruning certain types of trees or shrubs to give them a geometric or animal shape, for ornamental purposes....

The domus is a classic urban construction of the Roman housing repertoire, which also included the insulae, private houses intended for the people, built on several levels, used in ancient Rome. The domus was a private urban house consisting of several rooms, connected by a portico, with a peristyl...

One of the three orders of classical architecture, catalogued and passed on by Vitruvius. The architectural order is a group of rules that characterises every building. There are three main orders: Doric, Ionic and Corinthian, to which the Composite order was later added. The architectural orders d...

One of the three orders of classical architecture, catalogued and passed on by Vitruvius. The architectural order is a group of rules that characterises every building. There are three main orders: Doric, Ionic and Corinthian, to which the Composite order was later added. The architectural orders ...

The Roman baths had a succession of rooms for the care and well-being of the body. Once past the entrance atrium, you could access the changing rooms, the apodyteria, which sometimes had stone benches leaning against the walls. In the late antiquity residence of the Villa del Casale, different roo...

The Roman baths had a succession of rooms for the care and well-being of the body. Once past the entrance atrium, you could access the changing rooms, the apodyteria, which sometimes had stone benches leaning against the walls. In the late antiquity residence of the Villa del Casale, different roo...

The tepidarium is a moderate temperature room, located between the rooms for hot and cold baths, to avoid sudden changes in temperature. In the late antiquity domus, this space had to be separate from the adjoining massage room preceding it by a solid entrance door, to maintain the right temperatur...