The pleasure of water: the water-stair fountains of Aquileia

Authors

  • Fulvia Ciliberto Università degli Stdi del Molise

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13130/2035-4797/969

Keywords:

Aquileia, fountains, water, furniture, gardens, domus, sculpture, marble

Abstract

The contribution starting from the analytical study of five small water-stair fountains of Aquileia tries to place these pieces in the larger class of miniature fountains with steps. Their spreading, rather limited, seems to be related to a purely urban fashion, accepted in Italy only in Lazio and in Cisalpine. As an essential premise to this study there are some remarks and clarifications about the terminology, the shape, the decorations, the style and the chronology of this kind of furniture, which lay the bases for the comprehensive study of the material. The fountains with steps of Aquileia, a valid evidence of the will to adapt to the fashion of the capital, although showing the characteristics commonly found in this class of material, make it possible to find out new structural variants and to confirm or correct the dating of some formal changes noted.

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Author Biography

Fulvia Ciliberto, Università degli Stdi del Molise

Associated Professor of Archeology and Greek and Roman History of Art at the University of Studies of Molise. Her primary search field is Roman Sculpture, then Greek and Roman wall and floor Mosaic, History of collecting, studies of imitation of antiquities. She is member of “Associazione Italiana per lo Studio e la Conservazione del Mosaico” and of Association internazionale pour l’Etude de la Mosaïque antique; she is also a secretary of the Board of Directors of “Associazione Nazionale per Aquileia”.

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Published

2011-03-04

How to Cite

Ciliberto, F. (2011). The pleasure of water: the water-stair fountains of Aquileia. LANX. Journal of the Scuola Di Specializzazione in Beni Archeologici - Università Degli Studi Di Milano, (6), 100–149. https://doi.org/10.13130/2035-4797/969

Issue

No. 6 (2010)

Section

PROCEEDINGS: Luxury furniture of Roman age. Marbles and bronzes in the houses of the Cisalpine, Milan 2009 (Part II)