On Via della Fortuna, a short distance from the House of the Faun heading towards the Porta di Nola gate, we find a house named after the large and evocative Fresco on the garden wall depicting a mountain landscape where an ancient hunt for wild beasts is in progress. It is a house of Samnite origin and contains some fine examples of fourth style decoration.
Personifications of autumn and winter are depicted on the walls of the Atrium, while the facing walls of the second Cubiculum on the right portray mythological subjects. On the left we can see Leda and the swan, portrayed amid medallions with the busts of Jupiter and Diana and, on the right, Venus fishing between Mercury and Apollo.
In the Atrium and the peristyle which was used as a sort of office for the household business. This was where the tabulae, or accounts and other documents, were kept. '>Tablinum we find Nile landscapes with Pygmies, cherubs hunting wild beasts and a highly effective depiction of carpets and pieces of cloth billowing in the wind. The Exedra opposite the garden is embellished with fantastic architectures and lavish ornamental motifs in which we can see Diana bathing as Actaeon watches, and Apollo in the background with a shepherd.
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