Cryptoporticus A 45 m (147.6 feet) long
Third
Room
Corridors F and G, Garden L with “Garden adorned with
fountains” and Triclinium C
“The
decoration indicates clearly the moment of transition which, in the years of
the third last decade of the first century BC, takes from a dying second style
to the formal and thematic novelties of the third style: choice of monochrome
background, lightening of the architectural equipment and drastically reduction
of the perspective effects” (Mark Giuman - TMG)
Fourth
Room
Fifth
Room
“Typical
example of third style: end of the multiplication of illusionistic space and
decorative system focused, generally, on a main panel positioned centrally,
often flanked by smaller figured panels” (Gian Luca Grassigli - TMG)
Cubicles D
and E with stucco, including, in the ceiling “Winged Victory holding helmet”
Colorful and Black and White Mosaics of the
Imperial Period from the Lazio Region
“Mosaic floor in
scaled clypeus with the head of Medusa” second century AD from Via Emanuele Filiberto
“Nile Mosaic” second century AD from Villa
Maccarani near S. Saba on the Aventine Hill
“Dionysus and satyrs” second century AD from the area of
the Villa Farnesina, where S.
Giacomo in Settignano is today
“Mosaic floor with
heads of Satyr and Pan” second half of the second century AD from a Roman villa which probably
belonged to Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus in Genazzano
“Mosaic floor with
bust of Dionysus” third century AD from the Via Flaminia
“Dionysus and a
Maenad fighting two Indian warriors” fourth century AD from Villa Ruffinella in Tuscolo
“Busts of the seasons” fourth or fifth century AD from
Capannelle
Sixth
and Seventh Room
Villa di
Castel di Guido of the first half of the first century AD from the site of
ancient Lorium
Three walls
5 m (16.4 feet) high with frescoes in the third style of a lobby to a
triclinium reconstructed from about 3,000 pieces:
“Mars
seated, Eros and Aphrodite”, “Perseus and
Andromeda”
and maybe “Scene of sacrifice surmounted by trophy weapons”
Eighth
Room
Nymphaeum
of Anzio with “Hercules sitting on
rocks”
carved into stone and made of shells, colored stones and glass tiles
Floor
mosaics of the Villa di Baccano perhaps property of the Severian family
Large paintings of the late empire
“Sitting Venus or
Goddess Barberini” dating back to the time of Constantine (306/337) found in the Lateran
Baptistery and, from 1655, in Palazzo Barberini
A clumsy
restoration of the seventeenth century added the helmet transforming it into a
goddess Rome but it was probably the pictorial representation of the statue of
Venus of the Temple of Venus and Roma on the Velia Hill
“Three
monumental figures” maybe members of the imperial family
“Charioteer
with seahorse” also from the area of the Lateran
Eleventh
Room
Marble inlays
“Floral Panels” from the Villa of Lucius Verus
“Head of the sun god
in cipolin marble” beginning of the third century from the Mithraeum
of S. Prisca
Two marble
inlays from the Basilica of Giunio Basso:
“While the
story of Hylas and the Nymphs (allusive to the myth of the immortality of the
soul: Hylas is rewarded by the nymphs with eternal life) is executed with a
classicist purpose and ways, even if pervaded, as it would be, of the renewed
Late Antiquity sensitivity, the image of the client meets the needs of
self-glorification and exaltation, even adopting the forms of symbolic
language, as well shows the front of the chariot, represented at the expense of
the realistic rendering of the horses pulling” (Gian Luca Grassigli - TMG)
