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1 Understanding eclecticism in the homes of the Vesuvian region Francesca Tronchin The Ohio State University Getty Research Institute tronchin.1@osu.edu

2 The House of Octavius Quartio, Pompeii Paul Zanker: “A Walt Disney World” John Clarke: “A petit bourgeois Disneyland” Eugenio La Rocca: “Kitsch”

3 Gustave Boulanger, The Flute Concert, 1861

4 Domestic decor as self-definition Romanitas = Intellectual/literary culture + Heroic pursuits + Engagement in political life + Wealth + Good taste + Traditional mores + Family lineage + Exotica +...

5 House of the Vettii, Pompeii Room with mythological wall paintings— Pentheus dismembered by the Bacchae

6 Right: House of the Marine Venus, Pompeii Painted statue of Mars Below: House of the Stags, Herculaneum Marble statue of a satyr

7 Villa of Agrippa Postumus, Boscotrecase Egyptianizing detail in the Black Cubiculum

8 House of the Vettii, Pompeii Double-headed marble herm with two faces of Dionysos/Bacchus

9 House of the Ceii, Pompeii Wall painting of wild animals hunting one another

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11 Reconstruction of the House of Octavius Quartio, Pompeii

12 Schematic plan of the sculpture from the House of Octavius Quartio

13 Room f of the House Octavius Quartio, with images of Danae, a priest of Isis, and a drunken maendad.

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15 House of the Gilded Cupids, Pompeii

16 Paintings from the Egyptian shrine House of the Gilded Cupids, Pompeii

17 Marble reliefs with masks House of the Gilded Cupids, Pompeii

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19 House of the Faun, Pompeii Atrium and eponymous statuette

20 Mosaics from the House of the Faun, Pompeii

21 A fresco and two mosaics from the Alexander Exedra in the House of the Faun Centaurs dining, Nile landscape, “Battle of Issos”

22 Sculpture from the Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum

23 Sculpture at the so-called Canopus, Villa Adriana, Tivoli

24 Column Base of Antoninus Pius Apotheosis and Military Review

25 Portraits of Flavian-period women as Aphrodite/Venus

26 Funerary monuments of the late first century B.C.E. in Rome

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28 Interior design books from 1999 and 2004

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