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  2. Pompeian Styles - Wikipedia

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    The Pompeian Styles are four periods which are distinguished in ancient Roman mural painting. They were originally delineated and described by the German archaeologist August Mau (1840–1909) from the excavation of wall paintings at Pompeii , which is one of the largest groups of surviving Roman frescoes.

  3. Conservation and restoration of Pompeian frescoes - Wikipedia

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    The Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale was excavated in 1900 and many of the frescoes were stripped from the walls and auctioned off. One of the more notable conservation and restoration projects has taken place at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, NY, where they have restored and installed the paintings (2002-2007) from the Villa's cubiculum, or bedroom, for the new Greek ...

  4. House of Marcus Lucretius Fronto - Wikipedia

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    Several rooms are decorated in the late Third Style including the atrium, tablinum and bedroom 5. [2] Roger Ling considers these to be the locus classicus of the late Third Style and dates them to about 35 CE to 45 CE. [3] The atrium is the simplest [3] with black fields divided by golden yellow bands. Each field has a small figural detail in ...

  5. Painting in ancient Rome - Wikipedia

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    Roman fresco from the Tomb of Esquilino, c. 300-280 B.C. As with the other arts, the art of painting in Ancient Rome was indebted to its Greek antecedents. In archaic times, when Rome was still under Etruscan influence, they shared a linear style learned from the Ionian Greeks of the Archaic period, showing scenes from Greek mythology, daily life, funeral games, banquet scenes with musicians ...

  6. House of the Prince of Naples - Wikipedia

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    The house is painted throughout in the Pompeian Fourth Style and is valued because its decoration is all of a single style and single period, unlike many others that are often a mix of styles from different periods. [4] It is located in Regio VI, Insula XV of the city.

  7. August Mau - Wikipedia

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    August Mau. August Mau (15 October 1840 – 6 March 1909) was a German art historian and archaeologist who worked with the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut while studying and classifying the Roman paintings at Pompeii, which was destroyed with the town of Herculaneum by volcanic eruption in 79 AD.

  8. House of the Tragic Poet - Wikipedia

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    The atrium was the focal point of art in the House of the Tragic Poet. Except for the House of the Vettii, it contained more large-scale, mythological frescoes than any other home in Pompeii. Each image was approximately four feet square, making figures slightly smaller than life-size.

  9. House of Julia Felix - Wikipedia

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    Portico and garden. The House of Julia Felix was a combination of indoor and outdoor areas built around atria, courtyards into which the main rooms opened, with enclosed gardens and private water supply; [8] Sections of the praedia allowed for indoor and outdoor seating with frescoes depicting landscapes of leisure and gardens.

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