A window to Rome landscape: The dissolved wall

Abstract

This text is a report about the violent collisions between architectures, lyrical images and thoughts that move together through the cartilage of the History. This text also deals with atmospheres. We are used to erase the material limits of our architectures thanks to technology, perhaps we should now find out how the dissolution of the limits could happen in the ancient civilizations. In the Roman world, the walls of the buildings become dissolved with paintings or mosaics. These illusions are windows to other worlds, with more suggestive and beautiful places than the simple geometric patterns of the rooms. By analyzing the paintings in the villa of Boscoreale or nature representations in villa of Livia in Prima Porta, we can know the way that roman craftsmen changed the dimension of the rooms through fake architectures that create new looks and show that behind the walls there is a new world to discover. We have always thought that the study of the Past explains our Present. But it is also possible to think about the knowledge of our present that once injected in antiquity makes it change in order to understand it more clearly. This is one of the objectives of this text.