2 Apr 62 Jahr - Pentheus Room (House of the Vettii)

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Date: 62 CE~ 79 Ce

Artist: unkown

Medium: Fresco

Location: Pompeii, Italy

Function:
- Room in the House of the Vettii
- Triclinium: dinning room in a roman house
- main scene is the death of the Greek hero Pentheus
- Pentheus opposed the cult of bacchus and was torn to pieces by women, including his mother, in a Bacchic frency; two women pulling at his hair in this image

Form:
- architecture seen through painted windows
- imaginary landsacpe

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