House of Marcus Lucretius

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On the plan, the mansion of Marcus Lucretius is marked with the letter A

The House of Marcus Lucretius was first excavated in 1846–47. The house was originally called the House of the Women Musicians because of the frescoes in the lobby. The name was changed after the discovery of the painting, which featured the name of Marcus Lucretius in a room on the north side of the garden. Apparently it was the owner of the house. The House of Marcus Lucretius was originally built according to a fairly standard atrium and garden plan. However, the mansion was changed when the second building (Room 24) was attached to the garden. The servants of the mansion apparently lived in this new annex. The frescoes are simpler and there is no such scope. The house of Marcus Lucretius is preserved in an excellent condition. Even in spite of the fact that it was dug up more than a century ago, most of the interior was preserved, thanks to the special composition of the paint.

 

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Anteroom (a) opens east side of Via Stabiana. The walls of the corridor are decorated with frescoes in the fourth style with light blue panels over the dark red frieze. The central panels on each of the side walls contain a large picture; on the southern wall is the scene of a group of women musicians, in honor of whom the house of Marcus Lucretius originally got its name, and on the northern wall - the fresco of Ceres. A narrow doorway on this side of the corridor opens into a small room where there was a staircase (c) that led from the atrium to the upper floor. Most of the second floor was destroyed. In ancient times there were private chambers of the owner of the house.

 

The entrance hall opens directly into the square atrium-central living room (b), in which is located the central imluvium-pool for collecting rainwater. In the roof of the atrium was an open hole. The atrium has lost most of its fresco decoration. From the remains of gypsum, it can be assumed that the internal decoration consisted of a yellow central zone above the lower red frieze. On the western wall of the atrium, directly south of the entrance, is a temple-style Lararium (d). Lararium is the home altar of the Roman family. Here sacrificed the memory of ancestors and the genius-patron of the family.

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Two vaulted rooms open on the north side of the atrium. The cubiculum room (e) is decorated with fourth-style frescoes with white panels framed in yellow over the bottom yellow frieze. The central panels depicted mythological scenes; on the north wall is an image of Satire and Maenad, and on the west wall of Narcissus with Amur (now at the National Museum in Naples), and on the east wall is a very faded scene depicting Venus with Cupids. On the side panels are painted standing figures of unknown heroes. The upper zone consists of human figures and small scenes set in architectural motifs, framed by a red background.

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