#Colossus of nero full#
small landscape paintings, painted on smooth walls, decorated with a delicate ornament some of the paintings, referring to the previously fashionable Egyptizing style, presented compositions full of fantastic creatures these paintings were named “grotesques” from Roman caves (in later times the term grotesque took on a slightly different meaning). When the palace was finished in such a sumptuous manner, by consecrating it, Nero was to utter “that he was at last beginning to be housed like a human being” (according to Suetonius). There were bathhouses, to which both salt seawater and sulfur water from the springs in Albula were supplied abundantly. The ceiling of the main dining room was a dome rotating slowly day and night, like a celestial vault. The dining rooms had ivory vaults, with movable plates covering the openings through which flowers and perfumes could be poured onto the revellers. This road led to the palace and part of it was included in it. Along with the construction of the Golden House, the Via Sacra (the main street in ancient Rome where the processions and processions passed) was rebuilt with a two-sided colonnade. Among the numerous rooms, there are nymphs with salt and fresh water, rooms with a complex structures and various shapes. 
In the eastern part, an octagonal room covered with a dome was discovered. Behind it, there was a room with a gilded vault. They led to a trapezoidal vestibule containing a huge statue of Nero (made by Zenodorus) depicting him as Helios ( Colossus Nerois). Porticos were built along the façade with a total length of about 1.5 km.
The complex was modelled on the buildings of an urban villa and occupied an area of about 100 hectares. The house of Nero was designed by architects Severus and Celer.
Rome’s contacts with Africa and Far EastĪuthor: Howard Hudson | Under the Creative Commons Attribution license - On the same terms 3.0.
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