Pompeii
An ancient city in Italy; its destruction by the eruption of Vesuvius led to the preservation of a huge number of ancient Roman wall paintings.
Pompeii
An ancient city in Italy; its destruction by the eruption of Vesuvius led to the preservation of a huge number of ancient Roman wall paintings.
Basics to get you started
Roman wall painting styles
The rediscovery of Pompeii and the other cities of Vesuvius
Pompeii, an introduction
Rome’s history in four faces at The Met
Ancient Roman art, an introduction
Contrapposto explained
Women in Roman art
Ancient and Byzantine mosaic materials
Digging through time: Archaeology in Rome
Roman domestic architecture: the insula
Roman domestic architecture: the villa
