House of the Painters at Work
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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May 30, 2023 02:16 PM
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History
The House of the Painters at Work or Casa dei pittori al lavoro is a ruined domus at Pompeii that was undergoing renovations and repairs at the time of the city's final destruction.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/746630758
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- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of House of the Painters at Work (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Casa del Pittori al Lavoro (Italian, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- House of the Painters at Work (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- House of the Painters at Work located at Pompeii (unspecified date range)
- House of the Painters at Work part of (analytical) Regio IX, Pompeii (unspecified date range)
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The house takes its name from the fact that wall decorators were at work at the time of the building's destruction. The house is of an unusual plan and may represent a mixed-use space, combining domestic and commercial concerns.
Jeffrey Becker, 'House of the Painters at Work: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/746630758> [accessed: 17 April 2024]
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