Peristyle

Some feelings of the Modernism time period was a lack of faith in Christian beliefs. The argument within Stevens’ poem is that these religious fictions are no more important than fictions of the imagination. He proposes the idea that poetry is the supreme fiction rather than God. With more people becoming wrapped up in Modernism, peoples’ beliefs in Christianity either got weaker, where a few began to stray away – or – they began to hold on to it tighter, making it their escape from the new, radical

Compare and contrast two Pompeian houses. What do they each tell us about the status of their owners? Within Pompeii, the size and decorative aspects of someone’s home explained a lot about their monetary wealth and what sort of social status they upheld. People who had money and good social status would decorate their homes with High Greek culture for example myths and mosaics of Greek heroes. Whereas people from a lower class, tended to use less grandeur within the decorative style of their

the rich did not own the same type of houses. The answer that Ellis provides is that, generally, the house that every Roman citizen aspired to own is one with a “large richly decorated reception room opening onto a central colonnaded courtyard or peristyle”. Not much was known about the Roman Houses until the discovery of the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum in south Italy. Before these evidences, Vitruvius, with his book De Architectura, was one of the few primary sources available about this topic

Index: Greek Housing Introduction …………................................................. 3 Greek house types: Pastas…………………………………………………………… 3 Prostas…………………………………………………………. 4 Peristyle……………………………………………………….. 5 Location and relationship with surroundings ……….. 6 Roman Housing Introduction……………………………………………………………. 7 Atrium house………………………………………………………….. 7 Insulae……………………………………………………………………. 9 References………………………………………………………………………. 10   Greek Housing: Introduction: The

The Roman Empire is subdivided into four distinct periods, Roman Republic 500 BC-27 AD, Early Empire 27 BC-96 AD, High Empire 96 AD-192 AD, and Late Empire 192 AD-337 AD. Roman architecture and engineering began as an emulation of the Greek styles and ways, but throughout time the Romans developed their own unique styles and forms. Each period of the Roman Empire adapted or built on some kind of architectural feat. The columns of the Roman Empire are very similar to the columns of the Greeks.

as a house to the gods on earth. Often they housed statues of a god. Despite the Parthenon accommodated the gigantic statue of Athene and had many qualities of an ordinary temple, it was a colossal difference. As opposed to a customary 6x13 peristyle, the Parthenon has 8x17. Clearly, this marks a major difference in the size of the temple, both in width and length. [IMAGE]There are six Doric columns on the pronaos, which is a porch and another six columns at the back of the opisthodomos,

According to Ambler (n.d.) “Romans had a wide range of housing. The wealthy could own a house (Domus) in the city as well as a country farmhouse (villa), while the less fortunate lived in multi-story apartment buildings called insulae.” Domus (Latin name for the house) had many varieties, but all of them included certain elements. The central, most significant and important part of the Domus was the atria which served as a reception room and the place where the male head of the house met with his

• Many changes were made to funerary architecture as the years progressed. In Early Dynastic period, the elite members of society would be buried under a tomb structure called a mastaba. Inside the mastaba would be a sealed room for the ka statue of the departed. This room is called the serdab. These funerary structures would often be arranged together into a necropolis and would be faced towards the direction of the setting sun. One of the most impressive necropolises is Djoser’s complex at Saqqara

and were decorated with paintings and sculpture. A Villa of a wealthy Roman family was much larger and more delightful than a regular standard Roman house. A Roman Villa had multiple rooms. The multiple rooms included a triclinium (dining room), peristyle (garden), impluvium (pool), culina (kitchen), and cubiculum (the bedrooms). Some Roman Villas had sloping roofs, covered in broaded tiles. The Roman Villas windows were covered with blinds of linen, but most likely covered with shutters of wood.

During the Late Renaissance period, the largest church in the world and a grand symbol of papal authority was built within the territory of the Vatican City. Principally designed by famous architects, such as Michelangelo, Donato Bramante, Carlo Maderno and Gian Bernini Lorenzo, St Peter’s Basilica- built between 1506 to 1626- is one of the greatest Renaissance architectures and is regarded as “the greatest of all churches of Christendom”. Believed to be the site of Saint Peter’s tomb, one of the