wall painting Flashcards
Tablinum - House of Lucretius Fronto
AD 40-50, Pompeii
heavily featuring red paint - expensive pigment cinnabar
dark garden scene surrounding a central amphora on the socle/dado
deep purple predella with miniature scenes of fantastical animals interspersed with amphora
central image is a small mythological scene (Bacchus and Ariadne) on a larger red panel, flanked by dark decorative walls
the attic integrates architectural features
House of Meleager
AD 62-79, Pompeii
polychrome stucco panel with a ‘theatrical’ style - featuring the blues and reds
stucco utilised here to create texture and depth - decorative columns protrude as well as the figures/ deer on the right hand side (constructed from stucco, the dear is now missing but can see it was built from stucco because of the residue)
continuous frieze in the tablinum but was visible from across the atrium
House of Guilded Cupids
AD 50, Pompeii
unusual wall fresco design / sub-type known as the embroidery/carpet type
depicts red and ochre floral designs and gives the effect of a hung tapestry or wall paper rather typical fresco
Villa Varano
AD 50, Pompeii
textile patterning design on wall
wall painting at Nero’s Domus Transitoria
Rome, AD 55-64
painted and guilded decorative stucco design - here the painting is subordinate to the stucco work
frescoed vault of the nymphaeum (decorative fountain complex)
vaults and lunettes decorated with a pattern of medallions and concave sided diamonds (cut from their places upon the first discovery in 18th century)
diamonds framed in relief and filled with solid colour
wall-painting at Nero’s Domus Aurea
AD 64-80, Rome
scenographic - walls opened up illusionistically with architectural elements - figures set as if within a real environment
structural divisions punctuated by additional stucco
figures look over balustrades or in doorways - like spectators to enliven the painted architecture
House of the Vetti, red room
Pompeii, terminus antequam AD 79
predella depicting the working cupids/erotes - trimalchio vision around the depictions of work meaning it must be a freedman
House of the Vetti, Theban room
c.AD 70, Pompeii unusual wall
painted fresco on stucco
unusual room - purpose is not immediately clear from the shape as it is in other villas -> not an atrium, cubiculum or triclinium
Heavy utilisation of ochre/yellow background with architectural elements drawing stark attention to the mythological scenes which are in distinctive boxed panels
pentheus being ripped to shreds
Dirce led to bull by Amphion and Zethus
Theory that the room was intended as a picture gallery and served no other function - the narrowness of it suggests moving through to look and then moving on rather than lingering / not enough space for kline nor indication of where they would have been on the ground
NOTE ON NAME: given based on our understanding of the connective themes
