Classical Studies 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Poorhouse, Germanicus, Wall
16 Dec 2020
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Upperclass woman holding a stylus and notebook meaning that she is literate. When a room is less decorated, it means guests weren"t usually in that room. Fresco buono (vs fresco secco) means painting on a wall, fresco secco is painting on a hard wall (won"t survive very long). Fresco buono is painting into the wall where the wall was still wet. Kid applies plaster, someone painting into it while it"s wet. Plaster is wet and has lime in it. 4 styles of wall paintings for the upper class! Money pouring in after the defeat of hannibal. 1st design- paint applied to make the house look like marble blocks. Then you get rectangular shapes, illusionistic cubes, and different geometrical shapes representing pillars and blocks. Instead of having an illusion of the house looking like marble, inside the house they paint the wall so that it looks like you are looking out onto some landscape.
