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Designing for luxury on the Bay of Naples
villas and landscapes (c. 100 BCE-79 CE)
1 online resource (xx, 315 pages : illustrations, map.)
This study explores Roman luxury villa architecture and the Roman luxury villa lifestyle to shed light on the villas' design as a dynamic process related to cultural, social, and environmental factors. Roman villas expressed a novel architectural language which was developed by designers appropriating the existing stylistic and thematic vocabularies of Hellenistic and Roman architecture. Zarmakoupi seeks to describe and explain the ways in which this architecture accommodated the lifestyle of educated leisure and an appreciation of the Roman landscape, and how, in doing so, it became a cultural phenomenon and a crucial element in the construction of Roman cultural identity. In their effort to accommodate the Greek style, Romans created something completely unprecedented in the history of architecture.
1 Roman luxury villas: Introduction, historiography, and scope 1 -- The cultural phenomenon of luxury villas 3 -- Historiography 8 -- Scope and methodology of this study 13 -- The architectural language of luxury villas 17 -- 2 Case studies 25 -- Villa of the Papyri 28 -- Villa Oplontis A 45 -- Villa Arianna A 54 -- Villa Arianna B 66 -- Villa San Marco 68 -- Conclusion 74 -- 3 Porticus and cryptoporticus 75 -- Porticus in public architecture 80 -- Terminology 85 -- A daily life of educated leisure 88 -- Practicalities: circulation and access 94 -- Conclusion 101 -- 4 Porticoed gardens 103 -- Perisrylium-garden: architectural vocabulary 104 -- A new architectural language: peristylium structure + pleasure garden 114 -- A new design language of architecture, art, and landscape 122 -- Table 1 140 -- Table 2 140 -- 5 Water features: Euripi, natationes, and nymphaea 141 -- Water supply and water-mania 141 -- Water as luxury 146 -- The architectural embodiment of water's mythological and symbolic associations 152 -- The nymphaeum 152 -- Nile and Euripus 157 -- Water as a stage for swimming, bathing, and sunbathing 163 -- Water as a stage for reality: the pools (natationes?) 165 -- Water as a stage for mythology: decoration of water settings 174 -- Conclusion 177 -- 6 Triclinia and dining facilities 179 -- The 'ingredients' of the luxury dinner parties 180 -- Transformation of the dining facilities: staging the entertainment 189 -- Dining and bathing 198 -- Staging the landscape 203 -- Conclusion 211 -- 7 Designing for luxury 213 -- Approaches to the architectural design of the roman luxury house 214 -- Analysis of the architectural design of roman villas 220 -- No 'core' 220 -- Perforated architectural body 223 -- Architecture of the senses 229 -- The connective tissue 235 -- Conclusions 240.
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Oxford, 2007 issued under the title: Villae expolitae : aspects of the architecture and culture of Roman country houses on the Bay of Naples (c. 100 BCE-79 CE).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-301) and index.
Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation