Oecus with Second Pompeian Style Fresco, Oplontis Villa Poppaea

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Oecus with Second Pompeian Style Fresco, Oplontis Villa Poppaea Download Full Size Image

This Oecus (large room in a Roman house) in the Villa Poppaea at Oplontis (Italy) is decorated in the Second Pompeian Style with themes based around perspective views of theatrical backdrops (scaenae frons). 1st century BCE.

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Raddato, C. (2020, May 06). Oecus with Second Pompeian Style Fresco, Oplontis Villa Poppaea. World History Encyclopedia. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/12173/oecus-with-second-pompeian-style-fresco-oplontis-v/

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Raddato, Carole. "Oecus with Second Pompeian Style Fresco, Oplontis Villa Poppaea." World History Encyclopedia, May 06, 2020. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/12173/oecus-with-second-pompeian-style-fresco-oplontis-v/.

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Raddato, Carole. "Oecus with Second Pompeian Style Fresco, Oplontis Villa Poppaea." World History Encyclopedia, 06 May 2020, https://www.worldhistory.org/image/12173/oecus-with-second-pompeian-style-fresco-oplontis-v/.

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