Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In archœol., a burial-chamber having round its walls loculi or compartments for the reception of the dead. See catacomb.
- n. A mortuary chapel attached to a church.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- From Latin cubiculum ("bedroom"), from cubō ("lie down") (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Note 112: The cubiculum is discussed below in this chapter.”
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
“The cubiculum from the villa of P. Fannius Synistor, 50-40 BCE.”
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
“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
“The cubiculum from the villa of Fannius Synestor faced north. back”
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
“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
“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
“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
“Nor is it stretching the point too far to envision the Roman cubiculum and the Montefeltro studioli entwined within the genealogy of these pedagogical metaphors, as cells in which the scholar-bee would distill and preserve the sweet nectar of experience.”
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
“Mnemonic ornament from the cubiculum from the villa of P. Fannius Synistor, 50-40 BCE.”
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
“Along with the contemplative eddies in the medieval cathedral,30 intimate domestic settings modeled after the ancient Roman exedra and cubiculum — described by Vitruvius and Pliny and unearthed in the 1470s — provided prosthetic armatures for thought.”
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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hernesheir Do you ever wonder if your bedroom will be your burial-chamber? (See the various definitions) Dec 1, 2010