Literature: prose See all items with this value

1st century CE See all items with this value

Rome See all items with this value

Pliny the Elder See all items with this value

Historia Naturalis, 36.189 (64)

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Agrippa certe in thermis quas Romae fecit figlinum opus encausto pinxit in calidis, reliqua albario adornavit, non dubie vitreas facturus camaras, si prius inventum id fuisset aut a parietibus scaenae, ut diximus, Scauri pervenisset in camaras.

Verb (compound) (active) See all items with this value

Architecture: Building: Civic Building: Baths See all items with this value

Baths of Agrippa, Rome - rooms other than the hot baths (calides)

Visual Work: Painting See all items with this value

Opus albarium: rendered (e.g. in Loeb) simply as 'whitewash', but described by Vitruvius as made with marble dust (and so surely offering a high polish finish, akin to the glass referenced as a later development). Perhaps, like stucco-work, this could be moulded to produce figural or non-figural iconography or patterns.

Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa

From the context

A00291

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1st century CE

Pliny the Elder

Architecture (Ornamented)

Painting

Civic Building

Building

Baths