Click to rate this post!
[Total: 1 Average: 5]
House of the wild boar (VII,4,48)
The original layout remained through later remodeling, with ‘fourth style’ decorations completed immediately prior to the eruption in 79 AD. The house has the typical “atrium style” plan, based on the entrance-atrium-tablinum axis, sumptuously organized so that the guest would become aware of the host’s social status immediately upon entering. The decoration in the second room to the right of the atrium is especially well preserved; less so the large scene painted on the back wall of the garden, depicting a wild hunt: an allusion to the suburban villas and their hunting grounds. Sumptuous frescoes are found in the tablinum, opening onto the atrium and garden: the molding imitates marble wall coverings, the predella depicts Nile landscapes and cherub hunters, and the walls have sky blue panels similar to wind-filled tapestries.
