An incomplete bibliography on Roman Wall Painting
compiled by J. C. Fant
Bibliography
H. Mielsch, "Funde und Forschungen zur Wandmalerei der Prinzipatzeit von 1945 bix 1957, mit einem Machtrag 1980), in Augstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt II.12 (Berlin 1981) 157-264.
A. Barbet, Bibliographie general thematique de la peinture murale romaine. Centre d'étude des peintures murales romaines, Bulletin de liaison 5, Paris no date.
General
*A. Barbet, La peinture murale romaine: Les styles décoratifs pompéiens. Paris 1985.
G. Becatti, Arte e Gusto negli scrittori latini. Florence 1951.
H. G. Beyen, Die pompeianische Wanddekoration vom zweiten bis zum vierten Stil I (The
The Hague 1938), II, 1 (The Hague 1960).
M. Borda, La pittura romana. Rome 1958.
L. Curtius, Die Wandmalerei Pompejis. 1929.
W. Helbig, Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv verschütteten Stadte. 1868
Roger Ling, Roman Painting. Cambridge UP 1991.
Amedeo Maiuri, Le Pitture Di Pompei, Ercolano E Stabia nel Museo Nazionale di Napoli. Milan 1957.
Eric Moorman ed., The Functional and Spatial Analysis of Wall Painting. Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress on Ancient Wall Painting. Amsterdam 8-12 September 1992. Leiden 1993.
Eric Moorman, La Pittura Parietale Romana come Fonte di Conoscenza per la Scultura antica. Wolfeboro NH (Scrinium II) 1988. Bierce NB85 M66 1988.
K. Schefold, Die Wände Pompejis. Topographisches Verzeichnis der Bildmotive. Berlin 1972. the authoritative gazeteer of Pompeian walls.
K. Schefold, Pompejanische Malerei. Sinn unde Ideengeschichte. Basel 1952. translation La peinture pompeienne. Coll. Latomus 108, Brussels 1972.
Particular Issues
Alix Barbet and C. Allag, "Téchniques de préparation des parois dans la peinture murale romaine," MEFRA 84 (1972) 935-1069.
C. Dawson, Romano-campanian mythological landscape painting. Yale Classical Studies 9, New Haven 1944.
L. Dall'Olio, "Il motivo della 'porta sacra' nella pittura romana di paesaggio," Latomus 48 (1989) 513-31.
M. De Vos, "Primo stile figurato e maturo quarto stile negli scarichi provenienti dalle macerie del terremoto del 62 d.C. a Pompei," Mededelingen van het Nederlands Instituut te Rome XXXIX (1977) 29-47. shows that parts of Vettii 4th style predate earthquake.
Hèléne Eristov, Corpus des Faux-marbres peints a Pompéi (MEFRA ??) 1978.
Hèléne Eristov, Les Elements architectraux dans la peinture campanienne du quatrième style. Coll. d'L'école francaise de Rome 187, Rome 1994.
E. W. Leach, "Patrons, painters and patterns: the anonymity of Romano-campanian painting and the transition from the second to the third style," in B. K. Gold ed., Literary and Artistic Patronage in Ancient Rome (Austin 1982) 135-73.
R. Ling, "Studius and the beginning of Roman landscape painting," JRS 67 (1977) 1-16.
A. G. M. Little, Roman Perspective Paintng and the Ancient Stage. Kennebunk 1971.
Eric Moorman, "Rappresentazioni teatrali su scaenae frontes di quarto stile a Pompei," Pompeii Herculaneum Stabiae. Bolletino dell'associazione internazionle Amici di Pompei 1 (1983) 73-117.
W. J. Th. Peters, Landscape in romano-campanian mural painting. Groningen 1963.
W. J. Th. Peters, "La composizione delle pitture parietali di IV stile a Roma e in Campania," in La regione sotterata dal Vesuvio: Studi e prospettive, Atti del convegno internazionale 11-15 Novembre 1979 (Naples 1982) 635-60.
W. J. Th. Peters and P. G. P. Meyboom, "The roots of the provincial roman painting: results of current research in Nero's Domus Aurea," in Roman Provincial wall-painting of the Western Empire. BAR Int. Ser. 140, Oxford 1982: 33074.
M. Vetter, Der Sockel, seine Form und Entwicklung in den griechischen und hellenistisch- römischen Architektur und Dekoration von den Altesten Zeiten bis zur Verschüttung Pompejis. Strasbourg 1910.
Particular Houses
A. De Franciscis, The Pompeian Wall Paintings in the Roman Villa of Oplontis. Recklingshausen 1975.
R. R. R. SAmith, "Spear-won land at Boscoreale: on the royal paintings of a Roman villa," JRA 7 (1994) 100-128.
B.Andreae, "Rekonstruction des grossen Oecus der Villa des P. Fannius Synistor in Boscoreale," in B. Andreae and H. Kyrieleis eds., Neue Forschungen in Pompeji. Recklingshausen 1975: 71-83.
F. Barnabei, La villa pompeiana di P. Fannio Sinistore scoperta presso Boscoreale. Rome 1901.
K. Fittschen, "Zum Figurenfries der Villa von Boscoreale," in B. Andreae and H. Kyrieleis eds., Neue Forschungen in Pompeji. Recklingshausen 1975: 93-100.
A. M. G. Little, "The Boscoreale cycle," AJA 68 (1964) 62-66.
M. Robertson, "The Boscoreale figure-paintings," JRS 45 (1955) 58-67.
Erika Simon, Die Fürstenbilder von Boscoreale: Ein Beitrag zur hellenistischen Wandmalerei. Baden-Baden 1958.
P. W. Lehmann, Roman Wall Paintings from Boscoreale in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Cambridge MA 1953.
M. L. Anderson, "Pompeian frescoes in the Metropolitan Museum of Art," Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of 45 (1987) no. 3.
A. Maiuri, Le pitture delle case di "M. Fabius Amandio," del "Sacredos Amandus" e di "P. Cornelius Teges. Mon. Pitt. Ant. It. III, Pompei II. Rome 1938.
F. Niccolini, Le case e i monumenti di Pompei disegnati e descritti. 1854-91.
I. Bragantini, A. M. Dolciotti, L. Gigli et al., Museo Nazionale Romano, Le Pitture: Le decorazioni della villa romana della Farnesina 2,1. Rome 1982.
W. J. Th. Peters, "La composizione delle pareti dipinte nella Casa dei Vettii a Pompei," MededRom 39 (1977) 95-128.
Garden Painting
A. Maiuri, "Nuove pitture di giardino a Pompei," Bolletino d'Arte 37 (1952) 5-12.
W. Jashemski, The Gardens of Pompeii, Herculaneum and the Villas destroyed by Vesuvius. New York 1979. there is also an update.
1st Style
A. Laidlaw, The First Style in Pompeii: Painting and Architecture. Rome 1985.
V. Bruno, "The Antecedents of the Pompeian first style, AJA 73 (1969) 305-17.
2nd Style 80 - c. 15 BC (Ling)
P. W. Lehmann, "Lefkadia and the Second Style," Studies in Classical Art and Archaeology Presented to P. H. von Blanckenhagen (Locust Valley NY 1979) 25-29.
Rolf A. Tybout, Aedificiorum Figurae. Untersuchungen zu den Architekturdarstellungen des frühen zweiten Stils. Amsterdam 1989. huge bibliography.
Rolf A. Tybout, "Roman wall painting and social significance," JRA 14 (2001) 33-55.
3rd Style
F. L. Bastet, in B. Andreae and H. Kyrieleis eds., Neue Forschungen in Pompeji (1975) 197 and Cronache Pompeiane II (1976) 141-3. proposed chronology
F. L. Bastet, "Wann fing der vierte Stil an?" BABesch 39 (1964) 149-55.
F. L. Bastet and Mariette De Vos, Il terzo stile pompeiano: proposta per una classificazione. Archäologische Studien van het Nederlands Instituut te Rome IV, Rome 1979. note that De Vos contributes also a valuable essay on paving techniques that accompany all four painting styles.
H. G. Beyen, "Das chronologische Verhältnis der letzten drei pompeijanischen Stile," Bericht über den VI. Internationalen Kongress fur Archaologie, Berlin 21-26 August 1939 (Berlin 1940).
4th Style
W. J. T. Peters, "La composizione delle pareti dipinte nella Casa dei Vetti a Pompei," Mededelingen XXXIX (1977) 95-128.
William C. Archer, "The paintings of in the alae of the Case dei Vettii and a definition of the Fourth Pompeian Style," 94 (1990) 95-123.
William C. Archer, "The maturing of the Fourth Style: the Casa delle Nozze d'Argento at Pompeii," JRA 7 (1994) 129-150.
Architecture in painting
Faux marbre
Vitruvius VII 5: ex eo antiqui, qui initia expolitionibus instituerunt, imitati sunt primum crustarum marmorearum varietates et collocationes.
Pliny, NH 35.1 primumque dicemus quae restant de pictura. . . ; nunc vero in totum marmoribus pulsa. . . .
Statius, Silvae I 3, 35-36: an picturata lucentia marmora vena mirer?
H. Eristov, "Corups des faux-marbres peints à Pompei," MEFRA 91 (1979) 693-771
Workshops
H. G. Beyen, "The workshops of the Fourth Style at Pompeii and in its neighbourhood," Mnemosyne ser. 4, IV (1951) 235-257.
L. R. Richardson, Pompeii: The casa dei Dioscuri and its painters. MAAR 23, Rome 1955. also previous work in this area.
M. M. Gabriel, Masters of Campanian Painting. 1952.
Individual Myths and mythology as themes
P. von Blankenhagen, "Daedalus and Icarus on Pompeian Walls," RM LXXV (1968) 106- 143.
P. von Blankenhagen, "The Odyssey Frieze," RM LXX (1963) 100-146.
C. M. Dawson, Romano-Campanian Mythological Landscape Painting. YCS IX, 1944.
Individual Buildings
P. von Blankenhagen and C. Alexander, The Paintings from Boscotrecase. RM Ergänzungsheft VI, 1962.
Heide Lauter-Bufe, Zur Stilgeschichte der figürlichen pompejanischen Fresken. diss. Cologne 1969.
A. Maiuri, "Le pitture delle Case di M. Fabius Amandio, del Sacerdos Amandus e di P. Cornelius Teges [Efebo]," Monumenti delle pittura antica scoperti in Italia III, Pompei II, 1930).