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Villa of Livia
villa, Rome, Italy
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- In Rome: The Palatine
…known as the Villa of Livia, for his widow, and has small, graceful rooms decorated with paintings. Other private houses, now excavated and visible, were incorporated into the foundations of the spreading imperial structures, which eventually projected down into the Forum on one side and onto the Circus Maximus on…
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- In Western painting: Pagan Roman paintings
…those in a room from Livia’s Villa at Prima Porta (transferred to the Museo Nazionale Romano), represent a great park or garden filled with trees, shrubs, flowers, and birds, with no pilasters in the foreground to interrupt the prospect and no human figures to distract attention.
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