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After the great fire of Rome in 64 AD, attributed to Nerone, he decided to build this great recidence, which increase with its 100 hectares on the Palatino, the Esquillon and the Cello According to the text (Svetonio), this house was very beautiful and extravagant the ceiling's panels were removable so as to make fall down a rain flower of rain on the guests, the circular dinning room, bad the capacity to turn on itself without as the universe, on the artificial lake (where now there's the colloseum) asbig as the sea, was the scenary of big banquets, a glant golden statue of Neron decorate the ball;In the many gardensthere were many wild animals.But it seems that the Romans disliked the fact that a so much big house belonged to only one man that is why Neron's successors were used to destroy or to integrate some part of the house to others complexes. Some rooms, which are situated under the Traiano's thermals bath, bad inspired a lot of artists during the renaissance.These last ones were surprised by the strangeness of the animals and vegetable's paintings that are typical of the "Grotesque's style". |
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