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Nero's palace, the Domus Aurea (Golden House), is the most influential known building in the history of Roman architecture. It has been incompletely studied and poorly understood ever since its most important sections were excavated in the 1930s. In this book, Larry Ball provides systematic investigation of the Domus Aurea, including a comprehensive analysis of the masonry, the design, and the abundant ancient literary evidence. Highlighting the revolutionary innovations of the Domus Aurea, Ball also outlines their wide-ranging implications for the later development of Roman concrete architecture.

Architecture, Roman. --- Roman architecture --- Domus Aurea Neronis (Rome, Italy) --- Domus Aurea of Nero (Rome, Italy) --- Golden House (Rome, Italy) --- Domus Aurea (Rome, Italy) --- Rome (Italy) --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- 72.032.77 --- 72.032.77 Romeinse bouwkunst (tot 476) --- Romeinse bouwkunst (tot 476) --- Architecture romaine --- Domus Aurea Neronis (Rome, Italy). --- Rome (Italie) --- Constructions --- Architecture, Roman --- Arts and Humanities --- Architecture, Fine and Decorative Arts

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The palace of Nero is a visionary monument, decorated with monsters, fantastic animals and mythical scenes taken from the Homeric poems to create a colourful and seductive imagery. The part of this sumptuous ostentation of power that survived the damnatio memoriae of the emperor after his death is the pavilion on the Oppian Hill, over which the foundations of the new Baths of Trajan were built.0The volume opens with a portrait of Nero, a prince-artist whose complexity can only be guessed between the lines of a violently hostile biographical tradition. There follow, in order, the vicissitudes of the building, between rediscoveries (in the 15th century) and new condemnations (after the Council of Trent), an investigation into the ?grotesque? style from Raphael to the present day and a final chapter on the links with the imagery of contemporary art. The images that accompany the texts, as in all the volumes in this series, range from 19th-century paintings to maps and archaeological finds and, together with quotations, give the reader an unconventional and yet scholarly overview of the history of this magnificent monument.

Mural painting and decoration, Roman --- Mural painting and decoration --- Art, Italian --- Painting, Italian. --- Grotesque in art. --- Roman influences. --- Nero, --- Palaces. --- Domus Aurea Neronis (Rome, Italy) --- Rome (Italy) --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- Painting, Italian --- Grotesque in art --- Italian painting --- Ceilings, Painted --- Fresco painting --- Frescoes --- Frescos --- Murals --- Painted ceilings --- Painting, Decorative --- Wall decoration --- Wall-painting --- Art --- Decoration and ornament --- Interior decoration --- Painting --- Roman mural painting and decoration --- Roman influences --- Néron, --- Nerone, --- Nīrūn, --- Domus Aurea of Nero (Rome, Italy) --- Golden House (Rome, Italy) --- Domus Aurea (Rome, Italy)