POMPEIAN WALL PAINTING: the FOUR STYLES

(Examples are from Pompeii unless otherwise incidated)

FIRST STYLE (Masonry Style, second Century B.C.)

• Diagram with terms (Ling, fig. 9)
• The Basilica (W-H, fig. 2.9)
• House of Sallust (Ling, fig. 11, pl. IB; Kraus, fig. 292)
• Samnite House at Herculaneum (Ling, fig. 18; W-H, fig. 2.10)

SECOND STYLE (Illusionistic Style, ca. 80 B.C. to ca. 15 B.C.)

• House of the Griffins, Rome (Ling, figs. 20-21)
• Villa of the Mysteries (Ling, figs. 22-23, pl. IIA; Kraus, fig. 126, 294)
• Villa of Publius Fannius Synistor, Boscoreale (Ling, figs. 27-28; Anderson, pp. 16-25;--Metropolitan Cubiculum)
• Garden Room at Livia’s Villa at Prima Porta (Ling, fig. 158)
• Frieze of the Mysteries at the Villa of the Mysteries (Ling, figs. 104-105, pls. IXA-C; Kraus, fig. 114-116, 119-125)

THIRD STYLE (Ornate Style, ca. 15 B.C. to ca. A.D. 50)

• Imperial Villa at Boscotrecase. Red Room: (Ling, figs. 55, 153; von Blanckenhagen, pls. 18-33; Kraus, fig. 296) Black Room: (Ling, fig. 152; Anderson, pp. 36-48; von Blanckenhagen, pls. 1-17) Mythological Room: (Ling, fig. 115; Anderson, pp. 50-55; von Blanckenhagen, pls. 34-47)
• House of the Priest Amandus (W-H, pl. 3b)

FOURTH STYLE (Fantastic Style, ca. 50-79 [at Pompeii, etc.])

• House of the Vettii. Alae: (Ling, fig. 75); Ixion Room: (Ling, fig. 81; Kraus, fig. 109)

Works cited (check the reserve list; some will be there):

Maxwell L. Anderson, "Pompeian Frescoes in the Metropolitan Museum of Art," The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (Winter 1987/88) 3-56. [This constitute the whole Bulletin.]

Peter von Blanckenhagen, The Augustan Villa at Boscotrecase.

Theodore Kraus, Pompeii and Herculaneum: The Living Cities of the Dead.

Roger Ling, Roman Painting.

W-H = Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum.