FAH207H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Vatican Museums, Prima Porta, Caelus
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Wall painting: not preserved very good; but in pompeii, they are in good condition four styles. #first style pompeiian painting: 200-80 bce in the republican period not marble or stone but try to look like marble and stone; Romans incorporated the marbles from where they conquered: the statement of influence. No figural style; simple; relief; not completely flat; mimic 3 dimensional. Not about the material aspect but opens up into a different world. Villas: a little further out of rome; the roman aristocrats built with great decoration they could not do in rome; more power, more dangerous; way of divert wealth into the form in the suburban villas; Sometimes rural landscape; opens up monumental spaces and evokes the grandeur of rome; * villa of p. fannius synistor, boscoreale (mid 1st c bce) cubiculum(bedroom), fresco . The whole room (bedroom) is taken and in the met now. ^bays: try to be part of the room.
