House Of Marcus Lucretius Fronto
The House of Marcus Lucretius Fronto (Italian: ''Casa di Marco Lucrezio Frontone'', V.4.a) is a Roman house in Pompeii with well-preserved wall paintings in both the late Pompeian_Styles#Third_Style:_Ornamental, Third Style as well as the Pompeian_Styles#Fourth_Style:_Intricate, Fourth Style. Late Third Style paintings Several rooms are decorated in the late Third Style including the ''Cavaedium, atrium'', ''tablinum'' and bedroom 5. Roger Ling considers these to be the ''locus classicus'' of the late Third Style and dates them to about 35 CE to 45 CE. The ''atrium'' is the simplest with black fields divided by golden yellow bands. Each field has a small figural detail in the centre, including a bird, a dog chasing a deer and a dog catching a hare. The upper zone of the wall has insubstantial architectural elements typical of Third Style. The ''tablinums two main walls have very elaborate decoration including perspectival architecture in the upper zone, perspectival gard ...
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