Talk:laquearia

Additional cites; putting them here because many are Latin embedded in English and thus not ideal cites for either language section:

• 2006, Andrew John Matt, The Poetics of Dreaming: Virgil, Ovid, and Dante:

  However, this retrospective lunar connection with the laquearia is not the only factor that lends the moonlight its Roman glow. When, for example, we reverse the trajectory of the moonlight and look at how the moon casts its beams down upon the river Tiber, we are suddenly aware that […]

• 2007 January 1, Roger Bradley Ulrich, Roman Woodworking, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 156:

  The words chosen by Statius to evoke the great height of Domitian's palace hall are of particular interest: "The view travels far upward, the tired vision scarcely reaches the summit, and you would think it was the coffering [laquearia] of the golden sky." The key word in the passage is laquearia, which in English translation is often simply rendered as "ceiling." In fact the word laquearia, along with its variant, lacunaria, had a specific meaning in Roman literature. Both refer to a horizonta paneled ceiling framed in wood and ofte covered with gold.

• 1847, Theophilus (Presbyter), Diversarum artium schedula, page 77:

  Or "Laquearia" are what are laid over the beams and are interwoven with those beams. Also laquearia are those works which cover and ornament apartments; hence Josephus in VIII°, "De lignis celatis, opere laqueario, auroque […]

• 1849, Virgil, Aeneis, page 436:

  ... laquearia are properly the open spaces left between the rafters which supported the roof, and planks which were laid across them at regular distances; compartments were thus formed which were sometimes gilded or painted, and called […]

• 1892, John Henry Middleton, The Remains of Ancient Rome, page 70:

  Laquearia are flat panelled ceilings of wood: camerae being curved vaults; lacunaria are the sunk panels in ceilings of marble, stone, or concrete. The dome of the Pantheon is decorated in this way; see fig. 69, vol. ii. p […]

• 2017 September 7, Keith Maclennan, Virgil: Aeneid VIII, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 98:

  ... laquearia are the rectangular hollow spaces between criss-crossing roof-beams, made into a decorative feature by Roman architects […]

- -sche (discuss) 03:55, 3 June 2024 (UTC)