Description

A sweeping visual history of the fascinating vault inside Emperor Nero's Domus Aurea

The Volta Dorata is a vault in Rome's Domus Aurea, built by Emperor Nero in AD 64-68. This volume provides a critical analysis of all graphic works--including drawings, watercolors and engravings--depicting the Volta Dorata since its discovery by early Renaissance artists and antiquarians in the 1470s.