De architectura, 7.4.4

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Text Category
Literature: prose
Century Range
Location of Display
Reference
De architectura, 7.4.4
Quotation
Tricliniis hibernis non est utilis compositione nec melographia nec camerarum coronario opere subtilis ornatus, quod ea et ab ignis fumo et ab luminum crebris fuliginibus conrumpuntur.
Part of Speech
Type of Thing Ornamented
Architecture: Building: Domestic Structure: Interior
Object/ Person Ornamented
Winter triclinia/ dining rooms in houses
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Visual Work: Painting: Wall Painting
Visual Work: Sculpture: Relief
Medium/a Ornamenting
Fine ornament (detail) in the cornice work (sculpted or moulded in plaster, and probably painted)
Item Identifier
A00211
Determination
Derived directly from text