Resumen de Subtilitas Phlegraea. Nota sulla formazione del linguaggio architettonico a Cuma in età augustea
The exhibition per excerpta of architectural marble from the public areas of the city of Cumae, in the new rooms of the archaeological museum at Campi Flegrei, aims to illustrate the phenomena of the formation of the marmorarii, active in loco from the late Republican to the mid imperial periods, within the context of the autorepresentation of the local elites. The forms in use in the decorative repertoire document the influence of the stone masons coming from Rome and the soughtafter Greek artisans from the second half of the 1st century BC, when the Flegree cities adopted a central role in the changing political actions of Octavian and Agrippa. The progressive response to the models proposed by Rome gave rise to a phase of experimentation of the language of architecture, demonstrated in Regio I, before it was established, to the completion of a process of the standardization of the corinthian order, the style used in the Augustan forum.
