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  2. Atrium (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    A late 19th-century artist's reimagining of an atrium in a Pompeian domus Illustration of the atrium in the building of the baths in the Roman villa of "Els Munts", close to Tarraco. In a domus, a large house in ancient Roman architecture, the atrium was the open central court with enclosed rooms on all sides.

  3. Cavaedium - Wikipedia

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    In earlier and more modest homes, the atrium was the common room used for most household activities; in richer homes, it became mainly a reception room, with private life moving deeper into the (larger) house. The atrium was generally the most elaborate room, with the finest finishings, wall paintings, and furnishings.

  4. House of the Greek Epigrams - Wikipedia

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    Floor plan of the House of the Greek Epigrams Pompeii (V 1,18) Entering the home using its front entrance (18), a visitor could look across a wide atrium with impluvium slightly offset to the right, through a curtained tablinum to the red and white-columned peristyle where a mural on the rear wall depicted a bull attacked by a tiger.

  5. House of the Tragic Poet - Wikipedia

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    The atrium was the focal point of art in the House of the Tragic Poet. Except for the House of the Vettii , it contained more large-scale, mythological frescoes than any other home in Pompeii. Each image was approximately four feet square, making figures slightly smaller than life-size.

  6. House of the Faun - Wikipedia

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    The house is based upon two magnificent colonnaded gardens or peristyles, one Ionic and the other Doric. It also has two atriums, the Tuscan and the peristyle atrium. [3] The focus of the decoration of the house, the Alexander mosaic, is placed on the central visual axis between the first and second peristyles, in a room referred to as an ...

  7. House of Sallust - Wikipedia

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    The House of Sallust (also known in earlier excavation reports as the House of Actaeon) was an elite residence in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii and among the most sumptuous of the city. The oldest parts of the house have been dated to the 4th century BCE, but the main expansions were built in the 2nd century BCE during the Roman period.

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  9. Domus - Wikipedia

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    In homes that did not have spaces for let in front, either rooms or a closed area would still be separated by a separate vestibulum. Atrium (pl.: atria): the atrium was the most important part of the house, where guests and dependents (clients) were greeted. The atrium was open in the center, surrounded at least in part by high-ceilinged ...