Luxury living in late Roman Sicily : the villa at Piazza Armerina [videorecording] / [lecture by Roger Wilson ; sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum].

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Luxury living in late Roman Sicily : the villa at Piazza Armerina [videorecording] / [lecture by Roger Wilson ; sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum].

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Archaeologist Roger Wilson presents recent research on the remarkable fourth-century villa near Piazza Armerina in central Sicily. The unrivaled quantity and variety of its polychrome mosaic pavements, along with marble wall decoration, statuary, and fountains, reveal much about the rural retreats of late Roman millionaires elsewhere in the empire. In this lecture Wilson summarizes the present (2011) state of knowledge about the site, discusses the many and varied theories about the identity of the owner, and presents the results of fresh excavations conducted by the University of Rome and of the ongoing restoration program.

1 videodisc of 1 (DVD) (ca. 80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

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