Roman Paintings

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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.

FAMOUS ROMAN PAINTINGS

The coolness of the room was accompanied by the equally serene and cool artwork on the walls, which depicted the illusion of a garden landscape.

GARDEN FRESCO

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.

PERSEUS AND ANDROMEDA

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

HOUSE OF SALLUST

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.

P. FANNIUS SYNISTOR

This bedroom is located in Room M of the villa of P. Fannius Synistor, with each wall divided into four sections. 

ROOM M

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.

ROOM H

Taken from the grand triclinium, this fresco scene, found in Room H of the villa, depicts a man and a woman sitting next to each other.

ROOM H

The Ixion room contains multiple frescoes executed in the intricate style of the middle of the first century CE in Pompeii.

IXION ROOM

This Roman fresco portrays Terentius Neo clutching a scroll and posing with his wife who is seen holding a writing tablet and a stylus.

VILLA DI GIULIA FELICE

Also recognized as the Fayum mummy portraits, these naturalistic paintings were made in Egypt under Roman rule and were part of the mummification process.

FAYUM PORTRAITS

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