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Garden Vista, Villa of Livia at Primaporta

Garden Vista, Villa of Livia at Primaporta
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Description: Near Rome. Late 1st century BCE. Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome.

In the Villa of the Mysteries at Pompeii, murals depict initiation rites into the cult of Bacchus.
By using a kind of intuitive perspective, the artists have created a general impression of real space beyond the wall.

The late first-century BCE paintings on the dining-room walls of Livia's villa at Primaporta, exemplify yet another approach to creating a sense of expanded space with murals.
The painters used atmospheric perspective, where the world becomes progressively less distinct as it recedes into the distance.

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