Oplontis – Pompeii and Herculaneum tours with an archaeologist

The German archaeologist August Mau was the first scholar to classify the Pompeian painting in four styles. The first style, called structural style, referring to the period from the third to the first century BC, was an imitation stucco, often in relief. Significant examples of this style can be found in the House of theContinue reading “Pompeian Styles”