Question
August Mau named four periods of painting after this location, whose ornamental Fourth style is exemplified by dining room frescos patronized by the Vettius brothers. In an artwork from this location, a soldier stares at his reflection in a shield below an emperor reaching out from a chariot. A statue of a dancing faun names a (*) house in this location that contained a mosaic depicting Alexander at the Battle of Issus. Abandoned domus at this location include the Villa of the Mysteries, whose walls depict the Dionysian mysteries. For 10 points, some of the best-preserved examples of Roman painting were found at the ruins of what city, which like Herculaneum, was destroyed by Mount Vesuvius? ■END■
ANSWER: Pompeii [accept Pompeiian Styles or Pompeiian Periods; prompt on the Villa of the Mysteries or Villa dei Misteri or House of the Faun or House of the Vettii by asking “What larger site is that part of?”]
<Ganon Evans, Fine Arts - Painting - European to 1600> ~25717~ <Editor: Chandler West>
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