Flower species, all blooming simultaneously, include roses, poppies, chrysanthemums, chamomile, violets and irises. The tree and shrub species depicted in these frescoes include pines, oaks, red fir, myrtle, oleander, laurel, viburnum, cypress, date palm and boxwood. ![]() These frescoed paintings offered the subterranean dinner guests of the villa the amazing illusion of dinning in an outdoor grotto, overlooking a beautiful garden full of trees and birds, bordered by segments of a fence and low wall. ![]() The frescos, which originally covered all four walls of the windowless subterranean 40 foot long by 20 foot wide dinning room, where moved and reinstalled to the same scale room at the Palazzo Massimo, Rome, Italy in the 1950s. The triclinium was a formal roman dinning room with three reclining benches, centered around a low dinning table. Built near Rome around the last half of 1st century, B.C., the Villa di Livia was the country residence of Livia Drusilla, wife of the emperor Augustus. Image courtesy of Gallery Victor Armendariz.Ĭarol Pylant - Roman Gardenscapes: Paintings Inspired by the frescos of Villa di LiviaĬarol Pylant Roman Gardenscapes Paintings Inspired by the frescos of Villa di Livia “Roman Gardenscapes” is a series of paintings created in response to seeing the frescos from the subterranean triclinium of the ancient Roman Villa di Livia in 20.
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