Vectors of Suggestive Visitor Experience on a Roman Villa Maritima

Abstract

The article analyzes the scenarios of the emotional state of invidia that could accompany the experience of visitors to the country villas of the Roman nobility. On the basis of literary evidence the presence of multidirectional tendencies in the attitude to envy as a way of stimulating rivalry within the elites is revealed, which allows the possibility of a conscious desire to induce it through visual architectural techniques, especially perspective. On the material of the poem Statius, the images of symbolic control exercised by architecture and its owners over the states of natural elements are considered. The comparison with architectural techniques in the Villa San Marco reveals a number of perspectives in the deep part of the villa, transmitting the idea of control, while the perspectives united by the theme of envy are in the rooms of the entrance group.