Studies have shown that walls with Pompeian red backgrounds were painted in various ways,[citation needed] of which the use of cinnabar was the most expensive.
[1] The concept of Pompeian red was born with the real rediscovery of the site of Pompeii in the 18th century and its influence on art and taste in Europe.
The Café Procope in Paris, redecorated in the 1980s in a style reminiscent of late eighteenth-century taste, was covered with Pompeian red walls.
Pompeian red is not a color defined from a chromatic point of view or according to the pigments used, but an aesthetic and cultural reference.
The Latin vocabulary is imprecise in this area,[4] and Pliny the Elder, who is the main source of colors in ancient painting,[5] confuses the terms that designate one or the other.