Unknown · ca. 50–40 BCE
Wall painting from Room H of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale
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Wall painting from Room H of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale
ca. 50–40 BCE
The Second-Style Roman frescoes from Cubiculum M of the villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale, painted c. 50–40 BC and buried in the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79. The entire room has been reinstalled at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, its walls covered in illusionistic columns, sanctuaries, gardens, and stage architecture that surround the viewer with painted colonnades — the finest extant example of Roman Second-Style wall painting outside Italy.
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Image source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art