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The Cubiculum at Boscoreale
A wall of a Roman villa buried by Vesuvius — painted architecture opening onto painted air.
What
A fresco wall from Room H of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale, buried by the eruption of 79 AD and recovered whole.
Why
A faithful reproduction of a public-domain work in The Metropolitan Museum (CC0) — a genuine Roman wall, the same age and world as the Villa of the Mysteries frieze.
Notice
The entire room is an illusion: columns, gates and vistas painted onto a flat wall.
“The Romans painted the view they wished they had.”
Format
The full-resolution, colour-managed file — yours to print and keep. Editions ship with their certificate.
Sized to protect print quality — this source supports sizes up to 11x17" cleanly.
Size
$39.00
Honesty
ReproductionA faithful reproduction of a public-domain work. Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 03.14.5.
- Kind
- reproduction
- Era
- Roman, Boscoreale, ca. 50–40 BCE
- Source
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — a work of antiquity (Pompeii / the Greek vase canon). Cleared by open-access-registrar on 2026-07-18. The Metropolitan Museum of Art — Open Access (CC0). isPublicDomain:true; accession 03.14.5; direct-fetch confirmed 2026-07-18.
