The palette

Bricks for the walls, banded every six rows with smooth sandstone as travertine; cut sandstone for piers, sills, archivolts and mullions, smooth sandstone stairs and slabs for the platform, cornices and arch shoulders; smooth quartz, quartz pillars, chiseled quartz, quartz bricks and quartz stairs for the marble columns, capitals and entablature, polished diorite for plinths and floors; glass panes for the windows; prismarine bricks and water for the pools; resin brick slabs with rows of brick slabs for the terracotta roofs; polished andesite and its stairs for the lead dome; gold blocks for capitals and acroteria.

Techniques

• Brick banded with travertine
• Thermal windows
• Three gables
• Stepped dome
• Water inside

The steps

1. Travertine platform
2. Floors of the portico and the hall
3. Frigidarium: the lower walls and the great arches
4. Frigidarium: the upper walls and the thermal windows
5. Frigidarium: the cornice
6. The cold pool
7. Marble columns of the hall
8. Wings: the warm rooms
9. Wings: their tiled gables
10. Caldarium: the round walls and the hot pool
11. Caldarium: the upper walls and their windows
12. Caldarium: the cornice and the stepped rings
13. Caldarium: the dome and its oculus
14. Frigidarium: three gables of tiles
15. Portico: Ionic columns
16. Portico: entablature and roof

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