Now, obviously this had lead many to accuse Nero of starting the fire, as he would have gained some leverage over the real-estate situation of the capital.īut many of these allegations are seemingly unsubstantiated – mainly because the original fire started on the other side of the Palatine Hill, almost a kilometer away from where the founding stone of Domus Aurea was laid. How so? Well, as we fleetingly mentioned earlier, the fire managed to destroy many grand buildings inside Rome, while at the same time ‘clearing the way’ along large city zones for future construction projects. It is pretty safe to assess that Domus Aurea wouldn’t have existed if the Great Fire of Rome didn’t occur on the night between 18th and 19th July in the year 64 AD. This is because the massive amphitheater was rather built on a site that previously catered to Nero’s artificial lake by his Golden house. The latter part of the video superimposes the Colosseum on the water body that flanked the ‘villa’ on one side. This animated video mainly deals with the magnificent external features of the Domus Aurea. Given such ‘extremes’ of circumstances and results, Altair4 Multimedia has given a go at reconstructing the entire monumental structure with the use of some fascinating 3D rendering techniques. Designed as a large landscaped portico villa, the expansive project (patronized by Emperor Nero) was started in 64 AD, after the Great Fire of Rome had destroyed many of the aristocratic and civic buildings – especially on the slopes of the Palatine Hill. The Domus Aurea (or Golden House) aptly harks back to this progress of Roman building skills in terms of excessive magnificence. And sometimes such scopes of expertise even reached obsessive and (we daresay) ‘decadent’ levels. Beyond the ambit of military triumphs, the Romans were known for both their architectural and engineering prowess.
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