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4. Cubiculum - Where we get our modern Cubicle with very little improvement. A simple chamber.

Mostly used for sleeping by servants or household.

Principle things: A window to let in the sun and a bed. Minimalist

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Pliny's description of a bedroom in his residence at Tifernum-on-Tiber
"Est et aliud cubiculum a proxima platano viride et umbrosum, marmore excultum podio tenus, nec cedit gratiae marmoris ramos insidentesque ramis aves imitata pictura."
Letters of the Younger Pliny, Book V vi

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For a detail of a painting from the Cubiculum (bedroom) of the villa of Publius Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale, depicting a rocky scenery with a balustrade and an arbor in the upper part and a cave with a fountain and various birds in the... 1/2

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Late Republican (50-40 BC) paintings from the so-called 'cubiculum nocturnum' (bedroom) from the of P. Fannius Synistor at near They create an illusion of spatial depth with architectural motifs

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