A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
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Private Villas
Italy and the Provinces
The cultural phenomenon of private country houses was related to two contrasting but interrelated concepts vis‐à‐vis life in the countryside. In designing for life in the countryside, Roman architects explored contemporary ideas about landscape as an aesthetic form as well as a means to complement the owners' income. Hellenistic influences were inextricably linked to the formation of Roman villa architecture and culture, as they were in all fields of Italian material culture in the last two centuries BCE. The villa at Settefinestre in Etruria offers a prime example of how the design of the Roman villa accommodated the dual aspects of villa life. The spread of the villa was the result of the increasing taste for and use of Roman building materials, techniques, and styles and was not the expression of a new social and economic form as it was in Italy.
Private Villas
Italy and the Provinces
The cultural phenomenon of private country houses was related to two contrasting but interrelated concepts vis‐à‐vis life in the countryside. In designing for life in the countryside, Roman architects explored contemporary ideas about landscape as an aesthetic form as well as a means to complement the owners' income. Hellenistic influences were inextricably linked to the formation of Roman villa architecture and culture, as they were in all fields of Italian material culture in the last two centuries BCE. The villa at Settefinestre in Etruria offers a prime example of how the design of the Roman villa accommodated the dual aspects of villa life. The spread of the villa was the result of the increasing taste for and use of Roman building materials, techniques, and styles and was not the expression of a new social and economic form as it was in Italy.
Private Villas
Italy and the Provinces
Ulrich, Roger B. (editor) / Quenemoen, Caroline K. (editor) / Zarmakoupi, Mantha (author)
A Companion to Roman Architecture ; 363-380
2013-10-28
18 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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