Per una semantica della tradizione architettonica: il "biclinium" nella Casa di Apollo a Pompei (VI,7,23)

• Autores: Anna Anguissola
• Localización: Prospettiva: rivista di storia dell'arte antica e moderna, ISSN 0394-0802, Nº. 146, 2012, págs. 2-21
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • Rooms with two angular couches, drawn together at one end, enjoyed a remarkably short fortune in Pompeian houses, during the first century BC. Thanks to their chronological concentration, as well as to their comparatively high quality and location among luxurious reception rooms, researching such biclinia allows a privileged insight into the concepts of prestige, self-presentation and display in the domestic realm. They were a distinctive feature of buildings in the richest neighbourhood (the Regio VI) and of the stately mansions on the Southern and Western slopes, leaning on the old city-walls. Through the analysis of one of the very few rooms arranged with this shape during the last decades of Pompeii, this paper tackles the meaningful revival of features eclectically drawn from older traditions . Duly (and subtly) revised in accordance with a new taste, they helped to set an illusionary 'elsewhere', and to stage skiful plays involving light, painting, perspective.