The ancient building located in Largo Arrigo VII in Rome, known as Casa Bellezza – though the name actually belongs to the overlying modern building that belonged in the 1930s to the master Vincenzo Bellezza – was uncovered and partially excavated during a renovation of the building in the 1950s; subsequent interventions by the Superintendency provided static consolidation and the restoration of the paintings.
A recent work by F. Boldrighini allowed a comprehensive re-examination of the data related to the planimetric and architectural development of the building between the Republican and Imperial eras.
Of the rich Roman domus, located partly under the modern construction, partly under the related garden, and partly under the street (at about 10 meters deep), a portion of the basement and traces of some rooms on the upper floor are preserved. The remains currently consist of two frescoed rooms opening onto a cryptoporticus; a third room, certainly also painted, is still buried and has not been excavated due to static problems of the modern building above.
