Date: Mid-1st Century CE
-Wall painting from Pompeii
-Double portrait of a young husband and wife; wispy bearded man looks out with a direct gaze holding a scroll in his left hand, a conventional attribute of educational achievements seen frequently in Roman portraits; wife looks with less direct gaze, clutching a stylus-shows her literacy
-Comparable to modern studio portraits with careful retouching/lighting/conventional pose yet attention to physiognomic detail (differences in eye spacing, nose shape, etc.)
-Shows realistic human subjects
