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Painted rooms near Pompeii

Roman Wall Painting

Walls from two Roman villas that Vesuvius buried in the year 79, painted about a hundred years before: the villa of Publius Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale and an imperial villa at Boscotrecase. The bedroom from Boscoreale, painted on every wall with towns and colonnades, columns and red panels that open the walls into make-believe architecture, a garland hung with masks, a woman with a lyre in a carved chair, another holding a shield, and Perseus freeing Andromeda in a blue-green sea.

As a puzzle

Big fields of Pompeian red, black and green, with the life in the borders: columns, garlands, painted mouldings. Start from the figures and the straight lines of the architecture, then fill the colour fields, which are cracked and worn enough to give each piece a little texture. The two black walls from Boscotrecase are slow, so keep those low; the bedroom and the seated women take a moderate count well.

A good size here: 40–160 pieces.

Subjects here: Landscapes

17 pictures, pick one to build

Cubiculum (bedroom) from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale Unknown artist, ca. 50–40 BCE Wall painting: Perseus and Andromeda in landscape, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase Unknown artist, last decade of the 1st century BCE Wall painting fragment from the peristyle of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale Unknown artist, ca. 50–40 BCE Wall painting: Polyphemus and Galatea in a landscape, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase Unknown artist, last decade of the 1st century BCE Wall painting from Room F of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale Unknown artist, ca. 50–40 BCE Wall painting from Room H of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale Unknown artist, ca. 50–40 BCE Wall painting on black ground: Aedicula with small landscape, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase Unknown artist, last decade of the 1st century BCE Wall painting fragment from the peristyle of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale Unknown artist, ca. 50–40 BCE Wall painting from the west wall of Room L of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale Unknown artist, ca. 50–40 BCE Wall painting from Room H of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale Unknown artist, ca. 50–40 BCE Wall painting fragment from the north wall of Room H of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale Unknown artist, ca. 50–40 BCE Wall painting from Room F of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale Unknown artist, ca. 50–40 BCE Wall painting fragment from the peristyle of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale Unknown artist, ca. 50–40 BCE Wall painting from Room H of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale Unknown artist, ca. 50–40 BCE Wall painting fragment from the north wall of Room H of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale Unknown artist, ca. 50–40 BCE Wall painting from Room F of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale Unknown artist, ca. 50–40 BCE Wall painting on black ground: Egyptianizing scene and pair of swans, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase Unknown artist, last decade of the 1st century BCE