The murals were found in the Villa of the Antonines, a site named after a famous dynasty of emperors that include Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Veras, and the emperor Commodus.
Although he first aspired to be a painter, Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933), founder of Louis C. Tiffany and Company, became the Gilded Age's leading purveyor of decorative arts. The exhibition "Tiff…