Architectural landscape

This monochrome yellow-red fresco shows a landscape with architecture. To the left is an enclosed shrine on a rock, with an Ionic column supporting a vessel and a sacred tree. To the right is a staircase, flanked on both sides by balustrades, that leads to a gateway depicted in the guise of a small shrine. Inside the sanctuary is a man with a dog. Beyond the aedicula is a columnar tower with a hipped roof. In the background at center is a temple with a wooden gabled roof and decorated with a round shield on the wall.

Architectural landscape

Medium:
Fresco
Dimensions:
90.5 cm wide, 71.1 cm high
Context:
Villa of the Papyri, atrium area, Herculaneum
Date:
1st century BCE
Inventory Number:
MANN 9423
Lender:
National Archaeological Museum of Naples
Credit:
Image © Photographic Archive, National Archaeological Museum of Naples