This residence, excavated in 1903-1905, underwent exemplary restoration which included rearrangement of the garden with its numerous marble decorative elements.
The elegant building, representative of the affluent middle-class Pompeian home, follows the model of the peristyle house, and covers an area of 830 square meters.
The garden, designed like a theatrical scene, displays its owner’s personal taste and his love for ancient sculptural works. Splendid marble relief sculptures were inserted in the black-ground wall decoration of the peristyle, as exhibited in a gallery, while other works were placed in the garden or suspended between the columns of the porticos. Although the collection had been formed mainly under the reigns of Claudius and Nero, it also contained more ancient pieces of antiquarian value.
