Pompeii
After 80 B.C.
The Forum of Pompeii has a central rectangular space, 466 feet long by 124 feet wide, surrounded by the most important public buildings in the city. Like other forums, it is set up on an axial plan. A colonnade lines three sides. In the center of the fourth side, visible in the distance, is the Temple of Jupiter, known as the Capitol...
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House of the Silver Wedding
Pompeii
End of 2nd century B.C.
This large atrium or central hall is from a house of the Samnite era. Four Corinthian columns support the open roof which is sloped inward to collect the rain below. The opening is called the compluvium. Behind the atrium is the peristyle....
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House of Sallust
Pompeii
Another wall panel in the first style. The tablinum, originally the main bedroom, is the central room at the far end of the atrium....
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from Professor Barbette Spaeth, Tulane University
This artist's impression gives us an indication of the Atrium with the Impluvium and statue of Faun as it might have looked. The Peristyle is visible through in the rear....
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Pompeii
2nd century
This sectional view through a tradesman's home in Pompeii shows a cellar beneath the peristyle. The inwardly sloped roof and the roof opening (compluvium) can be clearly seen above the impluvium of the atrium....
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Forum of Pompeii
After 80 B.C.
The two-tiered colonnade has columns in the Doric style on the bottom and slender Ionic columns on top of a cross beam. In Pompeii many columns were made of brick and covered with stucco....
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Pompeii
The wide Via di Mercurio passed through the most well-to-do residential area and was open only to pedestrians....
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Pompeii
2nd Century B.C.
Based on drawing of Sir Banister Fletcher
Redrawn by Douglas A. Russell
The floor plan of a typical upper-class home of the Roman Republic. Showing the rather sophisticated living arrangements of the period. Shops surround the house with separate entrances to the surrounding streets. The main entrance leads into the atrium...
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After 80 B.C.
Pompeii lay undisturbed under volcanic ash until the middle of the 18th century. It was discovered by accident in 1748. We are looking at a panorama of the city after it was excavated. Like so many Roman cities, it has organized main streets stretching through the city. Note the archway in the distance....
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Villa of the Mysteries
Pompeii
c. 60 B.C.
A room painted in an early and simple version of the second style. In general the second style divides a wall into three horizontal areas: a base at the foot of the wall; a middle area of broad and narrow fields; and a narrow top area. Painted columns divide the wall vertically. Rooms are made to appear la...
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