Roman fresco confirming selective painting of building
Roman fresco confirming selective painting of building | Photo: © Ad Meskens / Wikimedia Commons
Beautiful Roman fresco that decorated the cubiculum (bedroom) of the Villa Synistora in Boscoreale (southern Italy), dating to the mid-1st century BCE.
The painting and its preserved colours indirectly confirm the opinion that the Romans used colour selectively on the facades of buildings: large surfaces remained in natural colours or neutral tones, and vivid colours appeared mainly in the lower parts of buildings (this part could be more easily stained or repainted) and in decorative elements.
