The Bent Page

While visiting Pompeii, you’ll find plenty of marvels, from the theater to the villas to the brothel, not to mention the technological wonders like the baths. What strikes the eye, however, are the interior decorations of the villas, specifically the painted walls.

One gets the sense of how the Roman people adorned their living spaces.

The scenes can be quite lively or rather mundane, no doubt based upon the resident’s taste.

The artists of the era must have been extremely busy because there were paintings after paintings covering large walls in all the villas. And these are only the ones recovered from the disaster. Surely there were more.