Underpainting with grid and sketches of architecture

A fragment from the next-to-the-last layer of plaster on a gray wall with two architectural compositions, one with a round temple framed by a pavilion and a half arch, and the other an architrave supported by columns. The overall image is gray with scratched lines.

Underpainting with grid and sketches of architecture

Medium:: Plaster

Dimensions:: 74.9 cm wide, 46.4 cm high

Context:: Oplontis Villa A (“Villa of Poppaea”), atrium 5, east wall, Oplontis, Torre Annunziata

Date:: 1st century BCE

Inventory Number:: MANN 155730

Lender:: National Archaeological Museum of Naples

Credit:: Image © Photographic Archive, National Archaeological Museum of Naples