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Lecture 16: The 2nd Style Phasing at Pompeii
- Style IA- House of the Griffins 80-60 B.C.
- Introduction of the 2nd plane
- Wall goes from closed to open
- Lighting parallels actual light source
- Tripartite vertical & horizontal divisions
- Scale and cube decorations trompe l’oeil
- Style 1B- Villa of the Mysteries 12 rooms 60-50 B.C.
- Upper Wall starts to open often
- Room glimpsed beyond this room
- View into another colonnade & tholos views
- Single vanishing point on one side occurs
- Less emphatic colors used in the distance
- Increased perspective views
- More virtuosity
- Vorhang Style begins- curtains
- Can be 3 or even 4 planes of vista architecture
- Large figural friezes popular
- The Villa of the Mysteries – Villa Urbana at Pompeii
- The Ordeal of a Bride – initiate into the rites of Dionysus
- Sequence of Events- Programmatic Painting arranged by wall
- Hieros Logos
- Pan and Panisca
- Unveiling of the phallus
- Satyr
- Lekantomanteia – mirror image, purification
- Dionysus and Ariadne – Pergamene Baroque style
- Hagesandros, Athanodoros and Polydoros of Rhodes
- Ritual flagellation – late Hellenistic style, influence of Praxiteles
- Vanth
- Cupid and Love and Psyche
- The Domina
- SECOND STYLE PHASE 1B
- Upper wall begins to open up
- One vanishing point on 1 side, less emphatic distance colors
- More perspective views
- Vorhang (curtains) begin
- Tholoi popular and courtyard views
- Figural friezes appear occasionally
- Style 1C- Villa of Fannius Synistor, Boscoreale 40s BC
- Whole wall elaborately dissolved
- Increasingly overelaborate and functionless
- Lots of doors framed by columns
- Exotically ornamed doors- gems, tendrils
- Increased fantasy, sitting, dangling creatures
- Vivacious acroteria and decorative geegaws
- Upper wall can also recede into illusionistic vistas
- Independent accessories- masks, shields
- Architectural parallels- Theater of Pompey
- Transport owner into world of magic luxury of Hellenistic royal courts and mansions of Crassus, Lucullus and Sulla (J. Engemann)
- H. G. Beyen- Influence of theater and set painting
- Vitruvius- Comic, tragic, satyr plays
- Karl Schefold- influence of Baroque Ptolemaic Egypt
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