honorthegods: irefiordiligi: The Painted Garden of the Villa di Livia, Prima Porta, RomeThis lush pa
honorthegods: irefiordiligi: The Painted Garden of the Villa di Livia, Prima Porta, RomeThis lush painted garden covered the walls of a semi-subterranean chamber, probably a cool triclinium (dining room) for summer banquets, in the suburban Villa of Livia Drusilla, the wife of the Emperor Augustus.This Second style fresco, the most ancient example of continuous garden painting (30 - 20 BCE), presents a variety of plants and birds rendered in a naturalistic way. “The plant species depicted include: umbrella pine, oak, red fir, quince, pomegranate, myrtle, oleander, date palm, strawberry, laurel, viburnum, holm oak, boxwood, cypress, ivy, acanthus, rose, poppy, chrysanthemum, chamomile, fern, violet, and iris.”- Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris, “Painted Garden, Villa of Livia,” in Smarthistory, December 6, 2015, accessed January 28, 2022, https://smarthistory.org/painted-garden-villa-of-livia/. -- source link