Roman interiors featured richly colored and detailed wall paintings on rectangular panels. Floors had marble tiles in geometric patterns or mosaics. Ceilings were barrel-vaulted and decorated. Lamps were simple oil vessels but beautifully crafted. Doors and doorways had artistic treatments like carving or bronze plating. Furniture was sparse to allow space, featuring couches, chairs, stools and tables, often decorated with precious metals. Storage items included wooden chests and cabinets.

1. ROMAN INTERIORS
SUBMITTED T0- Ar Neha Sharma
SUBMITTED BY-
Deeksha Srivastava
Harkeerat Kaur Munjal
Manish Rajput

2. ROMAN INTERIORS
• At first the stucco finished walls were simply marked
off into panels of rectangle shape, painted in deep and
rich colors with red and yellow predominating.
• Then in the middle of these panels elaborate pictures,
figures, interiors, landscapes, etc. of large sizes were
skill fully done.
• A little later the walls began to be covered with panels
of thin slabs of marble with a cornice.
• Beautiful effects were produced by the combination of
marble of different tints.
• Later it raised with stucco work, enriched with gold and
colors.

5. Floor
• Floors were covered with marble tiles arranged in
geometrical figures with contrasting colors or
with mosaic pictures.
• Roman ceilings were often barrel vaulted and
painted in bright colors, or divided deeply into
sunk panels by heavy intersecting beams of
marble or wood.
• And then decorated in the most elaborate
manner with raise stucco work, or gold or ivory,
or with bronze plates.

7. Lights and lamps
• Roman lamps were relatively simple items, simply
a vessel that held olive oil or melted grease.
• Through which there was a hole through which
the lamp was filled.
• As works of interior and decorative art such lamps
were often quite beautiful though.
• Even lamps made of cheap materials were often of
grateful form and proportions.
• These lamps were meant to be carried in the hand
like lanterns or supposed to be suspended from
the ceiling by hanging chains.

10. Doors and doorways
• Doors and doorways gave opportunities
for artistic treatment.
• Doors were elaborately pannelled and
carved or were plated with bronze or
made of solid bronze.
• The posters were sheathed with marbles
ordinarily carved with elaborated design.

12. Roman Furniture
• Roman houses tended to be sparse, since the
occupants liked space and simplicity in their décor.
• Beauty was created by mosaics, frescos, and water
features and other features of roman interiors rather
than by use of elaborate furnishing.
• Pictures of ancient roman furniture painted in
frescos and other artworks, together with few pieces
still are in existence today.
• The main items of roman furniture found in the best
houses were couches (Lectus), chairs and stools,
tables and lamps adding chests or wooden cabinets.

13. CHAIRS AND STOOLS
• The early form of chairs among the roman, The
Sedile, was the backless stool or bench with four
perpendicular legs.
• It was the regular seat for a person, used by men
or women resting or working
• The Solium an upright, high backed chair with
solid arms was used by the master of the house
when receiving visitors.
• Later The Cathedra became popular, this was a
more comfortable chair, without arms and with
curved back.

15. THESOLIUM
THE CATHEDRA

16. Roman bed and couches
• The Lectus, or couch, or bed, was perhaps the
most important items of roman style furniture.
• It had a headboard, and was furnished with
pillows, cushions and coverlet.
• The legs were often highly decorated with
precious metals.
• The coverings were often made of finest fabrics,
dyed in the brilliant colors and worked with
figures of gold.
• The couches used as sleeping beds seems to have
been larger than those used as sofas.

18. Chests and cabinets
• Wooden chests bound with
ornamented hinges and locks of
bronze were used for storage of
clothes and other things not
constantly needed.
• It is also used for putting away of
important documents, money,
jewelry.
• Wooden cabinets with doors, or
armania, were often divided into
compartment or shelves and supplied
with locks and hinges.
• Cabinets were used in roman libraries
to place books.

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