Pax Romana Art

The Peristyle Garden

A Roman house · 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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The Peristyle Garden: an illustration of a Roman peristyle garden with red and white columns, box hedges, fountains, bronze statues and a pomegranate tree
The Peristyle Garden
A Roman house · 1st century AD

A Garden Inside the Walls

The peristyle takes its name from a Greek word for a colonnade running all the way around. In the larger houses of Pompeii and Herculaneum it enclosed a garden behind the atrium, with dining rooms and bedrooms opening onto the covered walks. Columns were often stuccoed and painted, plain red on the lower part of the shaft and white and fluted above, as here.

These gardens were planted with care. Excavations led by the archaeologist Wilhelmina Jashemski found the cavities left by roots in the volcanic ash, and with them evidence of fruit trees, flower beds and hedges. Water was the luxury. Once the town had an aqueduct, owners set bronze and marble statuettes around their basins to spout jets of water, and portrait busts on pillars, called herms, among the plants. A pair of bronze deer once stood in the great garden of the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum.

The piece

The picture sets us under the colonnade, between two red-and-white columns that frame the garden like a stage. A band of blue and red meander mosaic runs along our feet. From there the box hedges lead the eye along the gravel walks to the first fountain, where the bronze boy and the deer pour water from either side, then on to a second basin and a marble table at the far end. The pomegranate on the left and the busts on their pillars keep watch.

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.

The Peristyle Garden: an illustration of a Roman peristyle garden with red and white columns, box hedges, fountains, bronze statues and a pomegranate tree
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.