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The natural conditioning of the plateau of Herculanum determines dwellings with a particular plan, impossible to relate to a well-defined type. Therefore, the decorative strategies adopted for some environmentes, differ from the usual norm that we see in the traditional system homes. For example, we find rooms in a noncanonical planimetric position that exhinit refined wall and floor decorations, thus playing a decisive role in the determination of a larger system of environments, that have the task of communicating a series of images and values of the social status of the dominus. Or we find included in narrow bulding lots, halls of representation and living room, typical of large suburban villas, unsusual in middle-class houses. A starting point for reflection in Herculanem is represented precisely by the occurrence of these opposing situations, that involve system of reference different from the canonical one in which the privileged visual axis of fauces-atrium-alae-tablinum constitutes a path through images created, thanks to a whole series of architectural and decorative references, to draw attention to the dominus figure: on one side the loggia/solarium-diaeta system, in which the fulcrum of the house moves from the majesty of the atrium or tablinum to the open spaces on the surrounding landescape, embellished with elegant decorations and highlighted by skillfull openings to the sorrounding nature, is applied to the houses facing the marina: on the other hand, in the middle-class houses, often the result of an undefined architectural project, the same functional relationships found in the stately homes are traced with lasser evidence, but varied according to the contingent need.
Keywords: Herculanem, domus, painting, decoration, architecture -
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