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The residence of the emperor arrived to include the Palate, the slopes of the esquilino (Opium) and part of the Celio, for an extension of about 2,5 square km. Most of the surface was occupied from gardens, with pavilions for parties or of stay. To the center of the gardens, that they included forests and vineyards, in the small valley between the three necks, it existed a pool, in part artificial, on the site of which risen more late the Coliseum. Nerone ordered also a bronze colossale statue of 37 meters representing himself, dressed colll' clothing of the god-Roman sun Apollo, the Colossus Neronis, that was place facing the entered main of the palace on the Palate. The giant was subsequently riadattato necks you test of successive varieties emperors, before Adriano moved to make it place to the temple of Venus and Rome and the amphitheater Flavio taken therefore the name of Coliseum in the Middle Age, actual from this statue. The true residence of Nerone rhymed however in the imperial palaces of the Palate.

The part preserved to the of under of the successive baths of Trajan on the necks Opium was essentially a villa for parties, with 300 rooms and not a room from bed and not even were discoveries kitchens or restrooms. Another innovation was destined to have a large flu on the future art:

It is handed down that the Fast and Severe architect had created also a clever mechanism, moved from slaves, that make rotate the ceiling of the cupola like the skies of the ancient astronomy, while came sprayed perfume and petals of rose fell on the participate in the banquet, petals in such quantity that an unlucky host was suffocated of it.

"Nerone tenne the better parties of all of the times," the archeologist explained Wallace-Hadrill to a journalist to the reopening of the Gold Domus in 1999, after years of closing for you restore. "Three hundred after its years death, during the public shows, came still distributed tokens with its effige - a 'souvenir' of the largest showman of everything." Nerone, possessed from its status of artist, certainly looked at to its parties like works of art.

Fresco you covered him every surface that not pits even more finished off. The main artist was Fabullo, the sole painter of the antiquity of whom really we can identify the works. The technology of the affresco, applied to the fresh plaster, asks for a swift and secure touch: Fabullo and its contributors covered an impressive percentage of the area. Plinio, in its Story Natural, tells like Fabullo is withdrawn alone for little hours to the day to the Domus, to work alone when the light was suitable. The swiftness of the execution of Fabullo gives an extraordinary unity to its composition, and a delicacy surprising to its execution.

After the death of Nerone, the ground of the Gold Domus venne "returned to the Roman people" from the successive emperors. In about a decade the residence neroniana venne stripped of its covering precious: the sites for the baths of Tito already were started in 79 d. C. Urinal used the space in which had been dug the artificial lake to build the amphitheater Flavio, col Colossus Neronis in its crowds. Also the baths of Trajan and the Temple of Venus and Rome reside in the ground occupied from the Domus. In forty year, the Gold Domus entirely was cancelled, buried under new constructions, but paradoxically this fece in manner that the 'grotesque' painted were able to survive; the sand worked like the volcanic ashes of Pompei, proteggendoli from their eternal enemy, the dampness.

When a young Roman fell accidentally in a crack on the side of the necks Opium to the end of the XV century, it is found in a weird cave, full of figures painted. Quite soon the young Roman artists took to do to lower on aces hung up to cords to be able to see their same. You fresco him uncovered then now they faded in pale grey blot on the plaster, but the effect of these decorations "grotesque," for the note, had been electrifying for the whole Renaissance. When the Pinturicchio, Raffaello and Michelangelo inserted themselves underground and had been make come down long of the horseraces to be able to study these images, ebbero a revelation of that ch' was the true ancient world. You are, and other artists that, like Mark Palmezzano, worked in Rome in those years, gave to spread themselves also in the such remainder of Italy "grotesque".