Along the Via Stabiana, also called the Via del Vesuvio in the Northwest Regio, sits The House of the Gilded Cupids. Please make yourself at home. I live here now, I am
an artist and am just finsihing a beautiful glass and paint amorini display. Gaze upon the gilded walls of the atrium and sit awhile by the soothing fountain. There are delightful fantasies hidden within this house and you
will soon find one that suits you. Click here to follow my servant Apius as he takes you through each room.
It is the time of Nero and I have a theatrical flair as you will soon find. My home is so named from my decoration of the cubiculum near the shrine of tutelary gods. In this area I have set into the plaster glass discs
with gold leaf back upon which I have engraved cupids. My home is unusual in it's layout, it has an atrium and tablinum but no cubicula (bed chambers) on either side, and off-set compared to the rest of the house, which elegantly
extends out towards the peristyle and garden. My atrium is lavishly decorated with statuettes, busts, animal sculptures and theatrical masks which are fitted into the walls and hung between the columns. Here you will also find exquisite
medalions I have placed about to fend off the evil eye.
Every single object adds a magical atmosphere to the house. Off the colonnade is the lararium tucked away in one corner. The sacellum is dedicated to the Egyptian triad of Harpocrates,
Isis and Serapis which follows the slope of the ground so that the west-facing side is higher than the rest. There is the triclinium with its stone beds and two lavishly decorated rooms. The room on the left has my vegetable garden and to its rear shows
a depiction of the seasons against a white background. The other room is decorated with love-related themes, Leda and the swan, Venus fishing and Actaeon spying on Diana while she bathes.
Glass Inlay in Peristyle Wall
Leda and the Swan
Visit Vesuvius 79AD
Living in Pompeii before Vesuvius' eruption in 79 AD.
History and RolePlay under the shadow of this crucial
historic event.
Try out some Pompeiian recipes in our cookbook, "Recipes from the Pompeiian kitchen."
Visitors to this Domus
