Images & Art

Detail, LARGE GARDEN ROOM

House of the Vettii Pompeii c. 62 A small portion of the black band elegantly ornamented....

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GARDEN PORTICO

House of Julia Flex Pompeii The portico along this garden consists of unusual rectangular and fluted marble pillars....

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FOUNTAIN

House of the Great Fountain Pompeii After 62 Based on Oriental designs, the fountain niche is covered with a vivid and elaborate mosaic. Water came out of the center slit and flowed down the six steps....

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CALIDARIUM IN THE MEN'S BATH

Forum of Pompeii 63-79 The public baths in the forum were a central part of Pompeian life. This is the calidarium or hot room with a hot bath in the men's section. The room was heated by hot air which passed through an opening between double walls and floors. The marble basin held cold water for sponging. The windows were for light. Notice the dec...

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VIA DELL'ABBONDANZA

Pompeii The Via dell'Abbondanza was the most important street in Pompeii. It held the commercial shops and private homes of merchants. A long street, it began at the forum and stretched to the Porta Sarno at the edge of the city. The stepping stones are for pedestrians in bad weather....

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RIOT IN THE AMPHITHEATRE

59 Museo Nazionale, Naples This third style painting gives a bird's eye view of the amphitheatre on the day of a bloody riot....

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THE STREET MUSICIANS

Dioskourides of Samos Villa of Cicero Pompeii c. 100 B.C. Museo Nazionale, Naples Mosaic has an important decorative role in the Roman household as well as in public buildings. This floor mosaic of street musicians, apparently based on a well-known third century B.C. painting, was made by a Greek artist, Dioskourides of Samos....

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ALEXANDER MOSAIC

From the House of the Faun Pompeii c. 80 B.C. Museo Nazionale, Naples One of the most famous pictures from the ancient world, probably a copy of a late classical painting, this mosaic of Alexander conquering Darius was laid into the floor of an open exedra between two peristyles in the House of the Faun. The floor mosaic was called tessallatum and...

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ALEXANDER MOSAIC

From the House of the Faun Pompeii c. 80 B.C. Museo Nazionale, Naples Alexander is portrayed realistically and all the details of his costume are carefully in place....

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ALEXANDER MOSAIC

The House of the Faun Pompeii c. 80 B.C. Museo Nazionale, Naples Darius on his chariot....

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