Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In archœol., a burial-chamber having round its walls loculi or compartments for the reception of the dead. See
catacomb . - noun A mortuary chapel attached to a church.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
room , especially abedroom , typically those small rooms found on the upper floor of a Roman house. - noun A small room carved out of the wall of a
catacomb , used asmortuary chapels , and in Roman times, for Christian worship.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Note 112: The cubiculum is discussed below in this chapter.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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The cubiculum from the villa of P. Fannius Synistor, 50-40 BCE.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Ornament in the cubiculum from the villa of P. Fannius Synistor, ca. 50-40 BCE.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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The cubiculum from the villa of P. Fannius Synistor, 50-40 BCE. A well-preserved cubiculum, extracted from the villa of Fannius Synestor at Boscoreale, may be visited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Ornament in the cubiculum from the villa of P. Fannius Synistor, ca. 50-40 BCE.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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The cubiculum from the villa of P. Fannius Synistor, 50-40 BCE.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Ornament in the cubiculum from the villa of P. Fannius Synistor, ca. 50-40 BCE.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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The cubiculum from the villa of Fannius Synestor faced north. back
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Within the most secret cell of your memory, the arca or cubiculum of your heart, your private meditations were trained toward the ethical objective of sancta memoria — to envision an ideal condition for living among others, and to translate from this ideal a practice of everyday life.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Replete with frescoes of illusionistically rendered civic and garden architecture, the cubiculum offered a theater of locations for contemplation.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
hernesheir commented on the word cubiculum
Do you ever wonder if your bedroom will be your burial-chamber? (See the various definitions)
December 2, 2010