The ancient building located in largo Arrigo VII in Rome, known as Casa Bellezza – but the name actually belongs to the modern building above, owned in the 1930s by the master Vincenzo Bellezza – was uncovered and partially excavated during a renovation of the building in the 1950s; subsequent interventions by the Superintendence provided static consolidations and the restoration of the paintings.
A recent work by F. Boldrighini allowed for a comprehensive reexamination of the data regarding the planimetric and architectural development of the building between the Republican and Imperial ages.
Of the rich Roman domus, located partly under the modern construction, partly under the related garden and a small part under the street (at about 10 meters deep), a portion of the basement floor and the traces of some rooms on the upper floor are preserved. The remains currently consist of two frescoed rooms that open 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.
