The Cultivation of Upper-Class Otium: Two Aquileian "Oratory" Pavements Reconsidered

• Autores: Antonia Holden
• Localización: Studies in iconography, ISSN 0148-1029, Nº. 23, 2002, págs. 29-54
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Fourth-century mosaic pavements in domestic settings in Aquileia, the capital of the Tenth Augustan Region of Italy, can quite plausibly be interpreted as secular. In certain houses from the town, individual rooms with mosaic pavements have been identified as oratories or private domestic chapels solely on the basis of those pavements. In a profane context, however, the mosaics' essentially neutral imagery could be defined as secular Greco-Roman idyllic genre. These images' particular frequency in fourth-century private domestic art must also have been partly connected to a widespread and quite intense cultivation of otium by the upper classes.