The Art of Ancient Rome
DU1741,Autumn Semester 2019
VI. Pompeii and Herculaneum: a moment frozen in the past
Joseph MallordWillamTurner, Vesuvius in Eruption, 1817-1820, watercolour /Yale Center for British Art
Karl Bryullov, The Last
Day of Pompeii, 1830–
1833, oil on canvas /
St. Petersburg, Russian
Museum
Bacchus fresco from the Casa del
Centenario (House of the Centenary),
from the lararium of the house /
Naples, Museo Archeologico
Nazionale, inv. nr. 112286
Agathodaemon
ἀγαθός δαίμων
Lit.“noble spirit”
Fresco with lares and snakes, c. 55–79 AD (fourth style) / Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, inv. 8906
Portrait ofTerentius Neo and his wife,
found in the tablinum of the house of
Terentius Neo, Pompeii, c. 55–79 AD /
Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale
So-called Flora fresco
and Medea, from the
cubiculum (bedroom)
of theVilla ofArianna
(Stabiae, c. 4,5 km
from Pompeii), c. 15–
45 AD / Naples,
Museo Archeologico
Nazionale
Portrait of a woman, from a Pompeian house,
c. 1–49 AD / Naples, Museo Archeologico
Mosaic with maritime fauna, c. 200 BC /
Naples, Museo Archologico Nazionale
August Mau (1840–1909)
• First style,“Incrustation style”, c. 200–80 BC
• Second style,“Architectural style”, c. 80–10 BC
• Third style,“Ornate style”, c. 10 BC – 60 AD
• Fourth style,“Intricate style”, 60 AD – 79 AD (eruption)
« 1st style »
House of the
Sallust, Pompeii,
c. 2nd century BC
Samnite House, atrium,
Herculaneum, 2nd
century BC
Cubiculum
(bedroom) from the
Villa of P. Fannius
Synistor at
Boscoreale, c. 50–40
BC / NewYork,
Metropolitan
Museum
Fresco cycle of theVilla of the Mysteries, c. 60 AD
Panel with candelabrum,Villa Agrippa
Postumus, Boscotrecase, last decade of
the 1st century B.C, c. 10 BC?
Roman fresco from the tablinum of the Casa
di Marco Lucrezio Frontone (V 4,a), Pompeii, c.
Ixion Room,
House of theVetii, Pompeii,
1st centuryAD
Catacombs of
Commodilla,
Rome, 4th
centuryAD
Medea planning the murder of her
children, c. 62–79AD, found in 1824-25
in the peristilium (portico with
colonnade and garden) of the Casa dei
Dioscuri, Pompeii / Naples, Museo
Archeologico Nazionale