Villa of Livia

…known as the Villa of Livia, for his widow, and has small, graceful rooms decorated with paintings. Other private houses, now excavated and visible, were incorporated into the foundations of the spreading imperial structures, which eventually projected down into the Forum on one side and onto the Circus Maximus on…

…those in a room from Livia’s Villa at Prima Porta, represent a great park or garden filled with trees, shrubs, flowers, and birds, with no pilasters in the foreground to interrupt the prospect and no human figures to distract attention.