Stabian Baths

building, Pompeii, Italy

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In Western architecture: Stylistic development
The Stabian Baths at Pompeii, built perhaps as early as 120 bce, were already composed of vaulted spaces, though quite compactly and with little of the later freedom and spaciousness. In some buildings—such as the Carcer and Tullianum (prisonlike structures of about 100 bce or earlier)…
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