The mystery of Lucius and the other painters of Pompeii

The mystery of Lucius and the other painters of Pompeii

Little and nothing is known about them. The most famous - so to speak - was called Lucius and today if he gets a shred of notoriety it is only for the fact that his name has been traced in a fresco, not for particular artistic merits. For the rest, the “painters of Pompeii” remain a mystery, but certainly not their works, which millions of visitors admire every year in the most popular Italian archaeological sites and which can be seen for six m…