Pompeii

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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BROTHEL FRESCO

Pompeii Fresco of a man and woman in bed....

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INTERSECTION

Pompeii After 80 B.C. This is a typical intersection. Wheeled traffic passed over and around the pedestrian stepping stones....

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CUBICULUM 11

Villa Oplontis Pompeii Mid-lst century B.C. A cubiculum or bedroom next to the atrium. This is decorated in a fully developed second style. The wall and ceiling are divided by cornices of stucco....

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Detail, BALCONY COLUMNS

Villa of the Mysteries Pompeii c. 50 B.C. Notice the decorative brickwork in these columns....

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PRIAPUS

House of the Vettii Pompeii In the entrance hall fresco the fertility god Priapus, protector of the household, weighs his enormous phallus, a symbol of good fortune....

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PERISTYLE

House of the Golden Cupids Pompeii c. 64 The elegant peristyle of the House of the Golden Cupids, built during the reign of Nero....

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SECOND STYLE PAINTING

Villa of P. Fannius Synistor Boscoreale c. 60 B.C. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York A painting of comic scenery for the stage uses the theme of the closed door but penetrates deep into an architecturally sound space....

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