Palazzo Massimo alle Terme. National museum of classical Roman art.
This lush painted garden covered the walls of a semi-subterranean chamber, probably a cool triclinium (dining room) for summer banquets, in the suburban Villa of Livia Drusilla, the wife of Augustus. This Second style fresco, the most ancient example of continuous garden painting (30 - 20 BCE), presents a variety of plants and birds rendered in a naturalistic way. Palazzo Massimo alle Terme. National museum of classical Roman art.
Roman Copy of the original Greek work by Myron (450BC). Palazzo Massimo alle Terme. National museum of classical Roman art.
