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Designing for luxury on the Bay of Naples :

0199678383 (hbk.)

9780199678389 (hbk.)

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Designing for luxury on the Bay of Naples :

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villas and landscapes (c. 100 BCE-79 CE) /

Mantha Zarmakoupi

First edition

xx, 315 pages :

illustrations, map ;

26 cm

Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation

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

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. Through an analysis of five villas from around the bay of Naples (c. 100 BCE - 79 CE), the volume shows that in designing for luxury, Romans developed a sophisticated interplay between architecture and landscape, an interplay which is still seen in architectural design today. Book jacket

Architecture, Domestic-- Italy-- Naples, Bay of

Architecture, Hellenistic-- Italy-- Naples, Bay of

Architecture, Roman-- Italy-- Naples, Bay of

Country homes-- Italy-- Naples, Bay of

Gardens-- Italy-- Naples, Bay of

Landscapes-- Italy-- Naples, Bay of

Naples, Bay of (Italy), Civilization

Rome, Civilization

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