At the tree’s base is the Acanthus plant. In this picture, we get an even greater sense of perspective with the wall moving around the tree. Here are some other frescoes from the Garden Room: The craze for depicting landscapes such as these was, according to Pliny’s Natural History, was begun by Spurius Tadius who prompted “the most attractive fashion of painting walls with pictures of country houses and porticoes and landscape gardens”. This fresco is an “openly unrealistic” (Leach) pastoral scene, where fruits grow “without regard to season”, and thus serves to demonstrate how highly stylised and idealised the Romans’ visual interaction with their pastoral landscapes was. It is a panoramic picture window, and illusion or a Trompe l’Oeil, and the use of atmospheric perspective, with the background becoming progressively more unclear, gives a great illusion of space. The division and perspective created by the fence makes this a second-style work. The meeting of enclosed, cultivated garden and wild, pastoral landscape is suggested by the wall visible at the bottom of the picture. The villa is located some 12 km north of Rome’s centre, and was known for its fabulous gardens. This fresco, now held at the Museo Nazionale Romano, is taken from a triclinium (dining room) at the Villa of Livia situated at Prima Porta. Floral scene from the Garden Room at the Villa of Livia, Prima Portaĭate: Late first century B.
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