Research Catalog

Title

Designing for luxury on the Bay of Naples : villas and landscapes (c. 100 BCE-79 CE) / Mantha Zarmakoupi.

Author

Zarmakoupi, Mantha, 1975-

Publication

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2014.

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Details

Description

xx, 315 pages : illustrations, map; 26 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation

Uniform Title

Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation.

Subjects

• Architecture, Roman > Italy > Naples, Bay of
• Naples, Bay of (Italy) > Civilization
• Landscapes > Italy > Naples, Bay of
• Rome > Civilization
• Architecture, Domestic > Italy > Naples, Bay of
• Gardens > Italy > Naples, Bay of
• Architecture, Hellenistic > Italy > Naples, Bay of
• Country homes > Italy > Naples, Bay of

Note

• 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).

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-301) and index.

Call Number

JFF 14-353

ISBN

• 9780199678389 (hbk.)
• 0199678383 (hbk.)

LCCN

2013940855

OCLC

864384002

Author

Zarmakoupi, Mantha, 1975- author.

Title

Designing for luxury on the Bay of Naples : villas and landscapes (c. 100 BCE-79 CE) / Mantha Zarmakoupi.

Publisher

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation

Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-301) and index.

Research Call Number

JFF 14-353