The Fourth Style: Popular In The Mid-First Century C. E.

The Fourth Style also known as the Intricate Style and became popular in the mid-first century C.E. The fourth style incorporates elements from previous and earlier styles. Seen in the First Style, the fourth had also had faux marble blocks which were placed at the base of the walls. Similar to the Second Style, the fourth set a naturalistic architectural scenes and the walls also were open up. The Fourth Style paintings had a movable sense of quality and graceful architectural details seen in the Third style.The Fourth Style also took the Third Style’s color palette which consist of flat planes of color.
The main hallmark of Fourth-Style paintings is large-scale narrative scenes, which show accounts of mythological tales, landscape, and