Peristyle Gallery

View of the House of the Tragic Poet, Pompeii VI.8.5

View of the House of the Tragic Poet, Pompeii VI.8.5. Showing the tablinum, impluvium (pool), well, peristyle (garden courtyard) and aedicula lararium (shrine). Chromolithograph and illustration by G. Autoriello from Antonio Niccolini's Pompeii: Views and Restorations (Pompeii: Essaies et Restaurations), published by Zucchi De Luca, Naples, 1898. Antonio was grandson of the architect Antonio Niccolini Sr. View of the House of the Tragic Poet, Pompeii VI.8.5. Showing the tablinum, impluvium (pool), well, peristyle (garden courtyard) and aedicula lararium (shrine). Chromolithograph and illustration by G. Autoriello from Antonio Niccolini's Pompeii: Views and Restorations (Pompeii: Essaies et Restaurations), published by Zucchi & De Luca, Naples, 1898. Antonio was grandson of the architect Antonio Niccolini Sr. Date:

© Florilegius/Mary Evans

Peristyle (looking up) Baalbek, Lebanon

The view looking up at the remains of a peristyle at the Temple of Baalbek, Lebanon, showing the columns, capitals and ornate roof. The site was a temple of the Phoenician Sun- god Baal-Hadad and the Roman god Jupiter. Date: circa 1910s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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