Large Peristyle, Casa dei Dioscuri, Ancient roman city of Pompeii, Italy
The peristyle garden of the Casa dei Dioscuri — columns, open sky, and the sense that someone came home to this every evening and thought nothing of it. The private life of a prosperous Pompeian, still legible nearly 2,000 years later. © Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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