Intimità a Pompei

Alcove cubicula, small yet lavish reception rooms in Pompeian houses, emerged as powerful symbols of social distinction and prestige. These intimate spaces, often adorned with beds for rest or sleep, exhibited rapid adaptation to evolving fashion trends, initially from patrician residences before spreading across social strata. The study reveals that their design reflected not only luxury aesthetics but also the diverse tastes of Pompeii's social groups, ranging from sophisticated elegance to trivialized clichés. By analyzing architectural layouts, accessibility, lighting, landscape, and decoration, the research reconstructs the cultural significance of these rooms as tools in strategies of distinction, offering a nuanced perspective on Roman domestic life and its social hierarchies.

Anguissola, A. (2010). Intimità a Pompei. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110240900