Nero's Domus Aurea

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.