La peinture allégorique à Pompéi. Le regard de Cicéron. Epigraphie the emergence of a world

the emergence of a world of mixed race and of an ecumenical Hellenism

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La peinture allégorique à Pompéi. Le regard de Cicéron. Epigraphie the emergence of a worldAllegorical painting appeared in the interior decorations of Roman houses in the late 80s BC. It disappeared some forty years later with the generation that had made it fashionable, in the political upheavals that followed the assassination of Caesar on the Ides of March 44 BC. The sumptuous compositions representing partly imaginary architectures and devoid of any human presence were piously preserved by the successive owners of the residences, no