L’acqua come elemento del linguaggio architettonico nella Domus Aurea e a Villa Adriana: l'eredità del mondo orientale

Water was an essential element in the complexes of power during the Roman Age. With their large basins, fountains, and monumental nymphaea, the Domus Aurea and Hadrian’s Villa re-elaborated a long tradition that saw widespread application especially during the Hellenistic period (in the palace complexes and sanctuaries of the Near East, like Iraq al-Amir, Herod’s palaces, and the architecture at Petra), but also in Rome during the early Imperial Age, as may be seen in the Villa of Agrippa Postumus in Pianosa and the so-called Villa Claudia in Anguillara Sabazia).