Images & Art

GARDEN MURALS

House of Venus Pompeii After 62 Painted garden scenes with a statue of Mars....

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SECOND STYLE MURAL

Villa of P. Fannius Synistor Boscoreale c. 60 B.C. Museo Nazionale, Naples There are three visual planes here: the colonnade in front of the door; the wall and door; and the world beyond the door. The masks are guardians of the beyond. The style creates a mysterious world, where tangible and intangible elements live side by side and yet blend into...

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BAKERY

Strada Stabiana Pompeii These are some mill-wheels which ground the flour in the bakery or pistrinum. The top part rotates around the bottom stationary stone....

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Interior, BROTHEL

Pompeii Doorways to the cubicles in the brothel. Above are remnants of frescoes....

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PALESTRA AT THE STABIAN BATHS

Pompeii 2nd century B.C. The palestra or gymnasium at the Stabian baths. A portico surrounded the area on three sides. Young athletes exercised in the center, swam and relaxed under the shady trees....

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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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LATE THIRD STYLE WALL

From the tablinum House of Marcus Lucretius Fronto Pompeii Between 50 and 60 In this late third style wall the once restrained decorative elements are becoming excessive and architectural depth is reintroduced....

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THIRD STYLE MYTHOLOGICAL SCENE

From the triclinium House of Sacerdos Amandus Pompeii The mythological scene of the chained Andromeda being freed by Perseus tends to emphasize the landscape and cool atmosphere instead of the people. This characteristic is also typical of the third style....

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FOURTH STYLE DECORATION

From a house in Herculaneum c. 70 Museo Nazionale, Naples The eye travels in and around, over and under, and further and further into the indefinable distance....

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WALL PAINTING

Portrait of a Young Woman From a House in Pompeii c. 50 Museo Nazionale, Naples A wall painting less than a foot in diameter, this delicate portrait (probably of the lady or daughter of the house) was worked into the wall decoration....

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