5050 x 3354 px | 42,8 x 28,4 cm | 16,8 x 11,2 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
settembre 2008
Ubicazione:
Villa Romana del Casale, Piazza Armerina, Sicily, Italy
Altre informazioni:
Villa Romana del Casale is a Roman villa located about 5km outside the town of Piazza Armerina, Sicily. It contains the richest, largest and most complex collection of Roman mosaics in the world. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Villa was constructed (on the remains of an older villa) in the first quarter of the fourth century A.D., The site was finally abandoned for good when a landslide covered the villa in the twelfth century AD, The size of the villa and the amount and quality of its artwork indicate that it was a centre whose owner was probably a member of senatorial class if not of the imperial family itself, i.e., the absolute upper class of the Roman Empire. The villa evidently served several purposes. It contained some rooms that were clearly residential, others that certainly had official purposes, and a number of rooms of as yet unknown intended use, though they were definitely not built for commercial or production reasons. The villa would probably have been the permanent or semi-permanent residence of the owner. It would have been where the owner, in his role as patron, received his local clients.
