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A Garden Dining Room on the Bay of Naples

The Bay of Naples · 1st century AD

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Framed print

  • 12-color fine art printing with fade-resistant pigment inks
  • Smooth matte fine art paper, 200 gsm
  • Pine wood frame, FSC-certified paper and wood
  • Shatterproof plexiglass
  • Arrives framed and ready to hang, hanging kit included

Hanging print

  • 12-color fine art printing with fade-resistant pigment inks
  • Smooth matte fine art paper, 200 gsm
  • Pine wood frame, FSC-certified paper and wood
  • Shatterproof plexiglass
  • Arrives framed and ready to hang, hanging kit included
  • Sizes: 18x12″ · 24x16″ · 36x24″
  • Orientation: Horizontal
  • Medium: Fine art paper
  • Style: Decorative
  • Era: Timeless
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A Garden Dining Room on the Bay of Naples: an illustration of a Roman garden dining room with striped couches under a vine pergola, looking across the Bay of Naples
A Garden Dining Room on the Bay of Naples
The Bay of Naples · 1st century AD

Dinner Under the Vines

In the first century BC and the first century AD, the Bay of Naples was the favorite resort of rich Romans. Generals, senators and emperors built villas along its shore, from Baiae and Misenum to Pompeii, Stabiae and Surrentum. The geographer Strabo says the bay was lined with towns, houses and gardens in such an unbroken succession that it looked like a single city.

Romans dined reclining, and in summer they liked to do it outdoors. Houses in Pompeii had masonry dining couches built in the garden, often under a vine pergola, sometimes with a fountain or a pool between them. Pliny the Younger describes one at his Tuscan villa: a couch of white marble shaded by a vine on four slender columns, with water spouting from beneath it into a basin. The heavier dishes were set on the rim, he says, and the lighter ones floated around in vessels shaped like boats and birds.

The piece

The picture seats us at the open end of the couches, where the servers came and went. The mosaic floor, a red and blue sunburst framed by waves, leads the eye to the white table and the bright jet of the fountain, and from there out between the columns to the sea. The red and blue of the cushions and the floor return in the water and the flowers, so the room and the view feel like one.

Materia · The materials

Fine art paper, framed or hung.

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Pine frame

Black, dark wood or natural wood, FSC-certified. Framed prints arrive framed and ready to hang, hanging kit included.

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Fine art paper

Framed prints: 200 gsm smooth matte paper, printed in 12 colors with fade-resistant pigment inks.

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Shatterproof plexiglass

Protects the print in transit and on the wall.

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Magnetic wooden hanger

Posters: 250 gsm museum-quality matte paper between pine hangers in black or dark wood. The magnets hold the print, so you can swap it any time.

Size guide

Find the right size

This piece, to scale, above an 84-inch sofa. Pick a size, or a format and frame above, and the wall follows.

A Garden Dining Room on the Bay of Naples: an illustration of a Roman garden dining room with striped couches under a vine pergola, looking across the Bay of Naples
Sofa · 84″ / 213 cm

Which size?

Sizes are the artwork's. Frames and hangers add a little around the edge.

Above a sofa or bed, art looks best at about two-thirds of the furniture's width, hung 8 to 10 inches above it.