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Terms: 
               verism
               Caesar
               wall painting: true fresco
                            First Syle
                            Second Style
                            Third Style
                            Fourth Style
                illusionistic space:
                            overlap
                            linear perspective
                            atmospheric perspective
                            vertical placement on the picture plane with corresponding diminution
                illusionistic mass:
                             modeling
                             forshortening
                mosaic:
                             tessera (pl.tesserae)
 
Works:

Republican Period:

• Roman Patrician with Busts of His Ancestors
• Head of a Roman patrician, Otricoli

Early Empire:

• Augustus of Primaporta
• detail
• Ara Pacis
• monument
• procession of the Imperial Familyl
• Tellus (?), female personification
• Portrait of Vespasian
• Young Flavian Woman
• Arch of Titus, Rome
  • detail

High Empire:

• Column of Trajan, Rome
  • detail

Wall Painting:

• First Style wall painting in the fauces of the Samnite House, Herculaneum, late second century BC
• Second Style wall painting in the Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii, ca.50 BC
• Second Style wall painting in the Villa of Publius Fannius Synistor, Boscoreale, near Pompeii, ca. 50 BC
• reconstructed bedroom
• detail of tholos wall painting
• Sacred landscape, Pompeii
• Detail of Third Style wall painting from the Villa of Agrippa Posthumus, Boscoreale, ca. 10 BC
• Fourth Style wall painting in the Ixion Room of the House of the Vetii, Pompeii, ca. 70-79 AD
• Portrait of a husband and wife, wall painting from Pompeii, ca. 70-79 AD
• Still life with peaches, Fourth Style wall painting, Herculaneum, ca. 62-79 AD

Mosaic:

• Decoration, ornament detail.
• Musicians, House of Cicero, Pompeii