Wall with Still Life, by unknown artist, 62-79, 1st Century A.D., ripped fresco, 298 x...

Whole artwork view. Wall with a pedestal and badges; the black-background base is decorated with bushes of vegetation; the middle zone, divided into three parts, hosts a central red-background panel on which stands out a yellow floor within an imagine representing a sylen and a maenad who fly together; at both sides of this yellow zone, separated by two white-background panels with semi-aedicules connected by wreaths and covered by thin, metallic candleholders on a black background, are two panels with red floor and yellow frame, with two landscape pictures in the middle; in the upper zone, a badge with four paintings representing still lifes: in the first one, are slices of bread; in the second one, oratas, surmullets and a moray eel among cliffs; in the third one a kalathos, typical Dionysus' bowl, with a spoon, some eggs on a silver plate and a jug of wine, hanging quails, a napkin and a little bottle; in the fourth one, two clusters of coins, an inkpot and a parchment; from Praedia di Iulia Felix.