Jun 23, 2018 · Roman gardens began as practical features. However by the imperial period both large and small gardens had become a recreational feature of the home. Archaeological remains and ancient sources can help to identify and recreate these different layouts.

The Roman garden's history, function, and style is investigated through archaeological and archaeobotanical research, famously conducted at Pompeii, literary sources, and wall paintings and mosaics in homes.

Feb 15, 2023 · Roman gardens were characterized by a love of the landscape surrounding vast residences. The main inspiration was the religious cult of nature – a world inhabited by deities and filled with their statues. Tombs, chapels and sanctuaries were located in the gardens.

May 25, 2018 · Roman gardens were influenced by Egyptian, Persian, and Greek gardening techniques. Each area in the garden had its special function. The owner could use his garden’s shaded path (gestation) to ride horseback or be carried by slaves.

Jan 12, 2023 · Through archaeological, art-historical, and textual evidence, we can understand how Roman gardens evolved; their diverse socioeconomic, political, and cultural meanings in the Roman world; and how these gardens were constructed.

The Gardens of the Roman Empire Project seeks to gather and make accessible, for the first time, the wide range of evidence for gardens and designed landscapes of the Roman world.

Feb 12, 2022 · "Ancient Roman Gardens is the first comprehensive account of gardens and gardening in the Roman period, creating a fascinating new dimension to our understanding and appreciation of life and society in ancient Rome, and adding an important chapter to the history of gardening and horticulture."

Roman gardens (Latin: hortus) and ornamental horticulture became highly developed during the time of Roman civilization. The Gardens of Lucullus (Horti Lucullani) on the Pincian Hill at the edge of Rome introduced the Persian garden to Europe, around 60 BC.

Jun 23, 2022 · The ancient Persian and Greek Empires created some of the earliest known designed gardens, and these were all in royal residences or other hallowed grounds. With the advent of the Roman Empire, we started to see gardens in more modest residential homes. Roman houses were built around a peristyle courtyard that contained

landscaping. Their complex systems for water distribution, public baths, fountains, and aqueducts all became hallmarks of both Roman social life and landscaping achievement.

Roman landscape architecture. Vitruvius Polio, a Roman who lived in the 1st century BC, was a military engineer with interests in buildings, clocks, harbours – and the landscape architecture of fortified cities. For reasons of health, comfort and ‘firmness’, Vitruvius advised that cities should be planned in relation to landscape ...

Jan 26, 2012 · Roman gardens were either large estates in the countryside (villa urbanae which evolved from villa rusticae), on the outskirts of cities (villa suburbanae), or the hortus a (relatively) small enclosed courtyard gardens set within their urban town houses (domus).

Roman gardens derived from the Greek, those in the seaside resorts of Pompeii and Herculaneum (1st century bce) following the Hellenistic pattern. These small, enclosed town gardens were visually extended by landscapes painted on the walls.

Jan 12, 2023 · Through archaeological, art-historical, and textual evidence, we can understand how Roman gardens evolved; their diverse socioeconomic, political, and cultural meanings in the Roman world; and...

A groundbreaking ecocritical study that examines how ideas about the natural and built environment informed architectural and decorative trends of the Roman Late Republican and Early Imperial periods.

The landscape the Romans found was one of cultivated fields and pastures, scattered farmsteads and settlements, and surviving islands of managed woodland. The Romans eventually criss-crossed the landscape with roads, beside which many villages and towns developed. These often had rectangular houses and shops fronting onto the road.

Feb 2, 2018 · An indispensable attribute of the Roman landscapes were water cascades, pools and fountains, which later became the characteristic features of the gardens of the south. Landscape art was not very diverse in earlier centuries, gardens are not only a natural component of estates of feudal lords, but also occupy a significant place on the ...

May 20, 2020 · Ancient gardens were spaces used for many activities, such as dining, intellectual practice, and religious rituals. They also offered the opportunity to flaunt horticultural skills as well as...

This book focuses on Roman architecture, nature, and wall painting to shed light on the interconnected environmental, aesthetic, social, and political changes of the late Republican and early Imperial periods that shaped ideas of landscape as a way of seeing—an active, historically-determined mode of looking.

This document discusses Roman landscaping and where they drew inspiration. It notes that the Romans were influenced by the Etruscans and Greeks in their landscaping. They borrowed ideas like creating idealized landscapes that evoked beauty and harmony.