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The ”Second Style”
The ‘second style’ is also called the ‘architectural style’. Here we find simulated perspectives of columns and architectural views, which are present also in the other styles except the first.
Characteristic of the decoration of the first century B.C. is this simulated perspective, with images of persons or pictures, often combined with imitation of marble panels, occupying all the available space. Large columns dominate the foreground. At times theatrical sets are created, in which life-sized figures act. The ‘illusionistic realism’ of the painted architecture operates a further dilation of the real space of the room, by opening onto buildings and landscapes in the distance.
