Announcing the advent of my #wallporn Advent Calendar!
Each day a window-shaped chunk of the festive garden scene fresco from Livia’s Villa will be opened to reveal the underlying majestic glory that is Roman wall construction.
What could be more exciting? #OpusCalendarium
Each day a window-shaped chunk of the festive garden scene fresco from Livia’s Villa will be opened to reveal the underlying majestic glory that is Roman wall construction.
What could be more exciting? #OpusCalendarium
Dec 1st
Starting with a pretty example of a building technique from #Pompeii known as ‘opus mixtum’. Here, a combination of courses of brickwork—‘latericium’— sandwich a layer of diamond-shaped blocks known as ‘reticulatum’ from the Latin ‘rete’ meaning ‘net’. #OpusCalendarium
Starting with a pretty example of a building technique from #Pompeii known as ‘opus mixtum’. Here, a combination of courses of brickwork—‘latericium’— sandwich a layer of diamond-shaped blocks known as ‘reticulatum’ from the Latin ‘rete’ meaning ‘net’. #OpusCalendarium
Dec 2nd
The unmistakable elegance of Opus Africanum. Formed of chains of alternating vertical and horizontal ashlar blocks framing an infill of smaller stones, this building technique was common in North Africa but is also known from 7th century BC Etruria.
#OpusCalendarium
The unmistakable elegance of Opus Africanum. Formed of chains of alternating vertical and horizontal ashlar blocks framing an infill of smaller stones, this building technique was common in North Africa but is also known from 7th century BC Etruria.
#OpusCalendarium
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