# Decoration of a house

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## Artwork

- Artist: [EARLY CHRISTIAN PAINTER, Italian](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/early-christian-painter-italian-r9c379b12e462c0>)
- Date: 0201-0250
- Technique: Mural

## Commentary

The picture shows wall paintings from a house below the church of San Sebastiano fuori le Mura on the Via Appia. The formal principles of this type of domestic decoration were taken up in the murals of underground burial sites in the third century.

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- [Ceiling decoration](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/early-christian-painter-italian-r9c379b12e462c0/ceiling-decoration-rb499c71d6915ce>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)