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Pompeii was a town full of elaborate estates with large gardens occupied by the wealthy merchants who lived in this area during the Roman Empire. These estates were known as Domus and had numerous sections of the housing that are very unique to this period in time. The House of the Vettii is one of the most famous and well known preserved houses found in the town of Pompeii and in this style of Domus. The House of the Vettii, many houses of this style, was owned by wealthy businessmen of the Vettii family, who many believed were ex slaves who gained freedom and fortune through trading in this town and became members of a new prosperous merchant class in Pompeii.
The House of the Vettii provides a detailed look into the transition that the city of Pompeii was undergoing in the mid-first century A.D after parts of the house was reconstructed after the major earthquake years prior to the eruption in 62 AD. Through numerous excavations on this historic site art historians have been able to deduce many of the frescoes located on the walls in the Pentheus Room were frescoes completed in the Pompeian Fourth Style of painting, such as the Death of Pentheus, which would have been completed following the earthquake thus showing evidence of reconstruction of this luxurious manner after a terrifying earthquake years before the catastrophic earthquake in following years. The House of Vettii also has many unique features showing the elegance of the building such as the décor located around the building including the terracotta waterspouts around the conpluvium and the unique and famous frescoes located around the house. A feature that was
not found in the House of the Vettii was a tablinum, which was a room used to meet guests and clients and welcome them into their homes, which emphasises the social class of the owners who gained fortune their trade of being merchants in Pompeii.
The preservation of the House of Vettii gives the modern viewer an insight to what life was like living in houses during the Roman Empire. Archaeologists and Historians are able to make an interpretation of what housing was like for the wealthy in Pompeii and housing styles specific to this period in time. The eruption also preserved the vast amounts of paintings and sculptures located in the estates in Pompeii providing information of everyday life for residents in Pompeii and Herculaneum and preserving these pieces of art that modern tourists are able to observe and interpret the way the residents of these magnificent estates did 2000 years ago. The houses are also a significant excavations that are able to change what people believed housing was like at this time, as other Roman towns advanced through the years, while each house covered in the pumice by this town prove exactly what social life was like at this time and what houses and buildings were like at the end of the Roman Empire.
The House of the Vettii provides a detailed look into the transition that the city of Pompeii was undergoing in the mid-first century A.D after parts of the house was reconstructed after the major earthquake years prior to the eruption in 62 AD. Through numerous excavations on this historic site art historians have been able to deduce many of the frescoes located on the walls in the Pentheus Room were frescoes completed in the Pompeian Fourth Style of painting, such as the Death of Pentheus, which would have been completed following the earthquake thus showing evidence of reconstruction of this luxurious manner after a terrifying earthquake years before the catastrophic earthquake in following years. The House of Vettii also has many unique features showing the elegance of the building such as the décor located around the building including the terracotta waterspouts around the conpluvium and the unique and famous frescoes located around the house. A feature that was
not found in the House of the Vettii was a tablinum, which was a room used to meet guests and clients and welcome them into their homes, which emphasises the social class of the owners who gained fortune their trade of being merchants in Pompeii.
The preservation of the House of Vettii gives the modern viewer an insight to what life was like living in houses during the Roman Empire. Archaeologists and Historians are able to make an interpretation of what housing was like for the wealthy in Pompeii and housing styles specific to this period in time. The eruption also preserved the vast amounts of paintings and sculptures located in the estates in Pompeii providing information of everyday life for residents in Pompeii and Herculaneum and preserving these pieces of art that modern tourists are able to observe and interpret the way the residents of these magnificent estates did 2000 years ago. The houses are also a significant excavations that are able to change what people believed housing was like at this time, as other Roman towns advanced through the years, while each house covered in the pumice by this town prove exactly what social life was like at this time and what houses and buildings were like at the end of the Roman Empire.