Villa of Livia

The topic Villa of Livia is discussed in the following articles:


  • TITLE: Rome (Italy)
    SECTION: The Palatine
    ...was born there in 63 bc and continued to live there after he became emperor. His private dwelling, built about 50 bc and never seriously modified, still stands. It is known as the House 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...


  • TITLE: Western painting (art)
    SECTION: Pagan Roman paintings
    ...filmlike, beyond a colonnade of pilasters, with vertical, bird’s-eye-view perspective and human figures strictly subordinated to their settings. Other wall paintings, such as 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...