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Roman fresco depicting a swan in the tablinum of the House of Fortune in Carthago Nova (modern-day Cartagena), a city on the southern Iberian Peninsula, Spain. The house dates to the late 1st century BCE and was occupied until the late 2nd...

The Trellis House in Herculaneum was built almost entirely of opus craticium, a low-cost building technique with square wooden frames filled with crushed rocks called opus incertum. The upper floor of this house was intended for use by several...

View of the raised garden of the House of Marcus Lucretius in Pompeii. The garden features an elegant fountain supplied by a jet of water that gushed from a statue of Silenus. The house is named after a small painting in which writing instruments...

The White House Ruins, Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, USA. White House Ruins is a cliff dwelling connected to a four-story block on the base of a cliff which was inhabited from c. 1060-1275 CE

View of the large atrium of the House of the Faun in Pompeii with a central impluvium (rainwater basin) and the bronze statue of the Dancing Faun. On either side of the atrium are cubicula (bedrooms) while at the rear is the tablinum (study...

An 1888 oil on canvas painting, The Yellow House, by Vincent van Gogh (1853-90), the Dutch post-impressionist artist. Painted in September, van Gogh rented rooms here – the part with the green shutters. Van Gogh's home holds the centre of...

An 1874 oil on canvas, Piette's House at Montfoucault, Snow Effect, by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), the Danish-French impressionist painter. The house belonged to Pissaro's fellow artist and good friend Ludovic Piette. (The Clark Art Institute...

The atrium of the House of the Wooden Screen in Herculaneum with central rainwater basin (impluvium) and marble table (cartibulum). In the background, the tablinum is separated by an elegant wooden partition. The simple mosaic floor indicates...

A large domus at La Villasse, the Dolphin House, Vaison-la-Romaine, France. The house was a farm in the first century CE and became an urban home in the following century. It takes its name from a small marble dolphin found inside.

The original coat of arms of the Scottish house of Stewart. The royal house was founded by Robert Stuart, Robert II of Scotland (r. 1371-1390).