Villa of Livia, Primaporta, Gardenscape Wall Painting

This wall mural was painted on a wall in the Villa of Livia around 30 BCE. The mural decorates a vaulted, partially subterranean chamber of the villa. The dry fresco is done in the second style of Roman art and depicts an ideal garden scene. The second style describes the artist's attempt to dissolve a room's confining walls and replace them with the illusion of an imaginary three-dimensional world.