Oplontis Villa of Poppea - Atrium, a frescoed wall
The walls are frescoed with grandiose decorations in the Pompeian II style. The architectural perspective, consisting of colonnades painted on a high podium, enriched by fake doors, bronze perfume burners, basins and imagines clipeatae faces within circular elements, landscape squares, was intended to dilate the physical limit of the walls.
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