Garden Room Frescoes from Livia's Villa

This room belongs to the garden frescoes from Livia’s suburban villa at Prima Porta, the imperial retreat where Augustus and his household escaped Rome’s summer heat. Painted for Livia’s dining room (30–20 BC), the walls open into an endless spring landscape of trees, flowers, and birds. As Augustus’s wife and the dynasty’s symbolic matriarch, Livia is surrounded here by imagery of fertility and renewal—visual metaphors for the peace and prosperity promised by the early empire.