Frescoes: Herculaneum

art Herculaneum:
College of the Augustales

The headquarters for the cult of the Imperial family, featuring stories from the life of Hercules and typical Style III architectural decorations. In this Augustan Age style a large central picture would be flanked by imaginary, and rather insubstantial, architectural pictures. I used Photoshop to "repair" the frescoes to get closer to what the originals looked like.
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Hercules with Juno and Minerva
artHercules with his lion skin and club artStyle III decoration

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