On a recent trip to Los Angeles, I visited the Getty Villa, a museum built to house oil tycoon, J. Paul Getty's, collection of classical antiquities. The villa is everything I dream of creating one day. It is a recreation of an ancient Roman villa, the Villa dei Papyrii, on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius in Herculaneum.
The attention to detail in the complex is amazing, right down to the mosaic on the atrium floor and the fresco in the outdoor peristyle. Each feature of the house takes its inspiration from different houses in Pompeii and Herculaneum, such as the House of the Fountain.
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| Jupiter |
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| impluvium in the atrium |
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| Central courtyard |
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| Outer peristyle |
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