Pompeiana : the topography, edifices, and ornaments of Pompeii . POMPEIANA. 139. DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE. The houses of Pompeii remain preservedto us in a state that leaves httle to bedesired upon the subject of many of thoseminor details, with which, until the dis-covery of that city, we were almost whollyunacquainted; and although no dwellinghitherto excavated could vie in extentwith the magnificent villas which belonged 140 POMPEIANA. to Pliny or Lucullus, and still less withthe splendid imperial residence, yet, bycomparing their remains with the ordinaryhouses, as described by Vitruvius, we
Pompeiana : the topography, edifices, and ornaments of Pompeii . POMPEIANA. 139. DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE. The houses of Pompeii remain preservedto us in a state that leaves httle to bedesired upon the subject of many of thoseminor details, with which, until the dis-covery of that city, we were almost whollyunacquainted; and although no dwellinghitherto excavated could vie in extentwith the magnificent villas which belonged 140 POMPEIANA. to Pliny or Lucullus, and still less withthe splendid imperial residence, yet, bycomparing their remains with the ordinaryhouses, as described by Vitruvius, we shallfind them fully adequate to enable us toform a tolerably accurate idea of the do-mestic architecture of the inhabitants, ifnot of the beauty and order of the morecostly edifices of Rome. A great feature in the arrangement ofthe ancient house, as distinguished fromthe modern, was the internal court. Courtswere usually formed each surrounded withapartments, which, lighted from within, atfirst sight seem to have afforded little pos-sibility of the domestic concerns of thefa
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