Note 112: The cubiculum is discussed below in this chapter. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The cubiculum from the villa of P. Fannius Synistor, 50-40 BCE. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The cubiculum from the villa of P. Fannius Synistor, 50-40 BCE. A well-preserved cubiculum, extracted from the villa of Fannius Synestor at Boscoreale, may be visited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Ornament in the cubiculum from the villa of P. Fannius Synistor, ca. 50-40 BCE. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The cubiculum from the villa of Fannius Synestor faced north. back ❋ Unknown (2008)
Otherwise, Vitruvius mentions the cubiculum once, noting that "private rooms [cubicula] and libraries should look to the east, for their purpose demands the morning light." ❋ Unknown (2008)
Within the most secret cell of your memory, the arca or cubiculum of your heart, your private meditations were trained toward the ethical objective of sancta memoria — to envision an ideal condition for living among others, and to translate from this ideal a practice of everyday life. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Note 30: Epistolae, 2.7.8: "Parieti eius cubiculi mei in bibliothecae speciem armarium insertum est quod non legendos libros sed letitandos capit" (My cubiculum has a press let into the wall that does duty as a library, and holds books not merely to be read, but read over and over again). ❋ Unknown (2008)
Note 123: Epistolae, 2.7.8: "My cubiculum has a press let into the wall which does duty as a library, and holds books not merely to be read, but read over and over again." back ❋ Unknown (2008)
Replete with frescoes of illusionistically rendered civic and garden architecture, the cubiculum offered a theater of locations for contemplation. ❋ Unknown (2008)
[Synestor's cubiculum is] just large enough for a single couch. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Nor is it stretching the point too far to envision the Roman cubiculum and the Montefeltro studioli entwined within the genealogy of these pedagogical metaphors, as cells in which the scholar-bee would distill and preserve the sweet nectar of experience. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The Oxford English Dictionary renders cubiculum (as well as its derivative cubicle) as "bedroom," a logical assessment given its Latin root, cubare, to recline. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Mnemonic ornament from the cubiculum from the villa of P. Fannius Synistor, 50-40 BCE. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Along with the contemplative eddies in the medieval cathedral,30 intimate domestic settings modeled after the ancient Roman exedra and cubiculum — described by Vitruvius and Pliny and unearthed in the 1470s — provided prosthetic armatures for thought. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In accord with traditional scholarship,115 the label describes the cubiculum as a bedroom; to this end, a small couch was previously placed in the room (it has been excluded following a recent restoration). ❋ Unknown (2008)
Instead, as may be gathered from Cicero, this period of the day and the setting of the cubiculum would have been used for "business, for conversation with particular friends, for reading and contemplation." ❋ Unknown (2008)
