2. 6-25 Wall Painting in the “Ixion Room,” House of the Vettii, Pompeii, Roman Empire, 62-79 CE.

3. 6-29 Cityscape, House of PubliusFanniusSynistor, Boscoreale, Roman Empire, c. 50-30 BCE.

5. He called for his shoes and climbed up to where he could get the best view of the phenomenon. The cloud was rising from a mountain -- at such a distance we couldn't tell which, but afterwards learned that it was Vesuvius. I can best describe its shape by likening it to a pine tree. It rose into the sky on a very long "trunk" from which spread some "branches." I imagine it had been raised by a sudden blast, which then weakened, leaving the cloud unsupported so that its own weight caused it to spread sideways. Some of the cloud was white, in other parts there were dark patches of dirt and ash. The sight of it made the scientist in my uncle determined to see it from closer at hand. --Pliny the Younger (in a letter to Tacitus) Joseph Mallard William Turner, The Eruption of Vesuvius, 1817.

6. Pompeii Campania

7. Mt. Vesuvius

8. Priapus, House of the Vettii, Pompeii, c. 62-79 CE.

9. The city of Pompeii, like its neighbors, has been partially excavated from beneath the volcanic debris of an eruption in 79 CE.

10. The Roman Villa Lararium Excedra Peristylium Triclinium Tablinum Cucina Atrium Impluvium Cubicula Part II Fauces Taberna Part I Taberna

11. The Roman Villa Lararium Excedra Peristylium Triclinium Tablinum Cucina Atrium Impluvium Cubicula Part II Fauces Taberna Part I Lararium

13. Styles of Pompeian Painting Fourth-Style Second-Style Third-Style First-Style

14. First-Style House of Sallust House of Sallust, Pompeii, First-Style, c. 2nd century BCE.

15. First-Style House of Sallust, Pompeii, First-Style, c. 2nd century BCE.

16. First-Style House of Sallust, Pompeii, First-Style, c. 2nd century BCE.

17. First-Style Isodomic Course Cornice String Course Isodomic Course Isodomic Course Orthostates Dado Plinth House of Sallust, Pompeii, First-Style, c. 2nd century BCE.

18. First-Style House of the Samnite, Herculaneum, 100-80 BCE House of Sallust, Pompeii, First-Style, c. 2nd century BCE.

19. First-Style House of PubliusFanniusSynistor House of FanniusSynistor, Boscoreale, 40 BCE.

20. Second-Style House of FanniusSynistor, Boscoreale, 40 BCE.

21. Second-Style Theatrical Mask Theatrical Mask False Door Lamps Lamps “Closed” Wall Tablinum, House of FanniusSynistor, Boscoreale, 40 BCE.

22. Second-Style Exterior Space “Open” Wall Cubiculum M, House of PubliusFanniusSynistor, Boscoreale, 40 BCE.

23. Second-Style Cubiculum M, House of FanniusSynistor, Boscoreale, 40 BCE.

24. Second-Style Cubiculum M, House of FanniusSynistor, Boscoreale, 40 BCE.

25. Second-Style Tablinum, House of FanniusSynistor, Boscoreale, 40 BCE.

26. Third-Style House of Marcus Lucretius Fronto House of Marcus Lucretius Fronto, Pompeii, c. 30-60 CE

27. Third-Style House of Marcus Lucretius Fronto, Pompeii, c. 30-60 CE

28. Third-Style Atrium, House of Marcus Lucretius Fronto, Pompeii, c. 30-60 CE

29. Flattened, linear architectural features. Monochrome background. Second Style Emblemata Tablinum, House of Marcus Lucretius Fronto, Pompeii, c. 30-60 CE

30. Narcissus, Tablinum, House of Marcus Lucretius Fronto, Pompeii, c. 30-60 CE

31. Tablinum, House of Marcus Lucretius Fronto, Pompeii, c. 30-60 CE

32. Tablinium, House of Marcus Lucretius Fronto, Pompeii, c. 30-60 CE

33. Fourth-Style House of the Vettii, Pompeii, c. 62-79 CE.

34. Fourth-Style House of the Vettii, Pompeii, c. 62-79 CE.

35. 2 Illusionistic Space 3 Flattened Emblemata 1 Simulated Masonry Wall painting in the “Ixion Room” of the House of the Vettii, Pompeii, 62-79 CE

36. Wall painting in the “Ixion Room” of the House of the Vettii, Pompeii, 62-79 CE

37. Wall painting in the “Ixion Room” of the House of the Vettii, Pompeii, 62-79 CE

38. Wall painting in the “Ixion Room” of the House of the Vettii, Pompeii, 62-79 CE

39. Still life, House of the Stags (Cervi), Herculaneum, c.62-79 CE

40. Portrait of Man and Wife, Pompeii House VII, 1st century CE.

41. Landscape, House of Livia, Rome, 27 BCE-14 CE.

42. Critical Thinking Question How does the structure of the Roman house correspond to the usage of the space? The status of the homeowner? Why are the four styles of Pompeian painting extremely problematic? How do the paintings project the status/identity of the homeowner?