Fresco From Brawl In The Amphitheatre House, Perystilium, 59-79 AD. Pompeii, Italy Editorial Image

The fresco with a historical subject, in the 4th Pompeian style, was found in 1869 in the peristyleof the house of Actius Anicetus in Pompeii, better known as the so-called. “House of the Brawlin the amphitheater”, next to a frieze with gladiator fights.The fresco, which reproduces places and events with faithfulness to the details and withexpressive immediacy, depicts the crucial moment of the brawl that broke out in Pompeiiin 59 AD. on the occasion of games in the arena, which involved Pompeiani and Nucerini ewhich caused, at the behest of Nero, the closure of the amphitheater for ten years.