Art in ancient Roman culture takes you through multiple themes ranging from portraits to animals, still lifes, daily life, and mythology. Erotic imagery is also featured in ancient Roman art.
This Roman wall painting is one of many famous wall paintings of ancient Rome. Executed in a Roman fresco style, the wall painting showcases a landscape featuring two mythological events.
The fresco of Mars, Venus, and Cupid in the Cubiculum room is one such example of the first style of ancient Roman paintings derived during the Republican period
Many of the surviving artworks showcase the second style of ancient Roman art and contain many visual ambiguities as well as architectural details that resemble real architectural elements.
Seen in Room H of the villa, this fresco depicts a woman sitting on a chair, playing a kithara in the middle of what is allegedly the triclinium (dining area) or the social room.
Also recognized as the Fayum mummy portraits, these naturalistic paintings were made in Egypt under Roman rule and were part of the mummification process.