De architectura, 5.6.8-9

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Text Category
Literature: prose
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Reference
De architectura, 5.6.8-9
Quotation
Secundum ea loca versurae sunt procurrentes, quae efficiunt una a foro, altera a peregre aditus in scaenam. Genera autem sunt scaenarum tria: unum quod dicitur tragicum, alterum comicum, tertium satyricum. Horum autem ornatus sunt inter se dissimili disparique ratione, quod tragicae deformantur columnis et fastigiis et signis reliquisque regalibus rebus; comicae autem aedificiorum privatorum et maenianorum habent speciem profectusque fenestris dispositos imitatione communium aedificiorum rationibus; satyricae vero ornantur arboribus, speluncis, montibus reliquisque agrestibus rebus in topeodi speciem deformati.
Type of Thing Ornamented
Architecture: Architectural Element
Architecture: Building: Civic Building
Object/ Person Ornamented
Middle door of the scaenae frons of a theatre
Stage-set machines (periaktoi), with three revolving backdrops
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Visual Work: Painting: Wall Painting
Nature
Visual Work: Sculpture: Statue
Architecture: Architectural Element
Architecture: Building: Domestic Structure
Medium/a Ornamenting
Columns, pediments, statues, balconies, windows, architecture imitating public and private buildings.
Wall paintings with natural subjects, imitating landscapes, satyric natural iconography: trees, caves, mountains, and depictions of other rustic elements or spaces
Item Identifier
A00199
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