Domus Aurea

Domus Aurea

64-68

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Golden House of Nero

Severus and Celer

Famulus

Bugbee, Gordon (photograph)

Roman

Italian

visual works

Italy (nation)

Rome (inhabited place)

Imperial (Roman)

frescoes (paintings)

villas

Nero--Emperor of Rome--37-68

View of frescoes at the Golden House of Nero, constructed after the great fire which destroyed much of Rome in 64 AD. Gordon Bugbee Collection. "After the fire of 64 CE, which destroyed the greater part of the centre of Rome, Emperor Nero had a new residence built; it had walls sheathed by fine varieties of marble and vaults decorated with gold and precious stones, so to earn the name of Domus Aurea (Golden House). It was designed by the architects Severus and Celer and decorated by the painter Fabullus ... At the death of Nero, his successors tried to bury every trace of the Palace. The luxurious halls were despoiled of the sheathing as well as of the sculptures and were filled with earth up to the the vaults; upon them the large Baths of Titus and Baths of Trajan were built and in the underlying valley the Colosseum was erected. The lavish fresco and stucco decorations of the Domus Aurea remained hidden until the Renaissance,"--Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma website.

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