Roman Villa

In a villa of the Late Roman Empire, life unfolds between the toil of the fields and a fading, quiet elegance inside the main house. Slaves and tenant farmers labour in vineyards, olive groves and granaries, while the owner checks his accounts in a room whose mosaics are already worn at the edges. The private baths still function, though water no longer arrives as reliably as it once did and the hypocaust groans like an old bone. In the gardens, busts and statues look on in silence as news of ra