North Wall

A. Karivieri & R. Forsell

DESCRIPTION

The wall is covered by faded wall-plaster, and thus no original wall structure is visible; the visible parts are reconstructed. The yellow plaster of an earlier phase is visible at the floor level behind the cocciopesto floor in the W corner and in the centre of the room.  

Wall-plaster

Upper zone
In the upper zone, there are still remains of an architectural decoration with slender columns, a two-storey colonnade, and girlands hanging from the architrave. Traces of yellow colour are preserved.

Main zone
Main zone: three panels: a red central panel is flanked by panels where the original colour has faded, according to PPM the side panels were black, of which traces can be seen near the corners. Mau identified this painting as a representative of the Third Style (Mau, tavola 18b); in the centre of the side panels, there were slender candelabra typical of the Third Style. Today, no colour is left on the candelabra, but the incisions for the painting is preserved. Both sides of the red panel are flanked by slender white columns (see sketch in Ippel 1910, fig. 4). Above the red panel, in the upper main zone, there is a tympanon still visible. A small red square is visible between the upper edge of the red panel and the tympanon. On both sides of the tympanon there seem to be square panels reaching to the corners, with a red border marking the upper edge of the upper main zone.

Dado
The dado is black, and the horizontal upper border has remains of green colour in the upper part, white below.

State of preservation
The plaster surface above the cornice preserves only the Unterputz.