Tholos, by unknown artist, 40-30, 1st Century B.C., ripped fresco, 210 x 294 cm

Whole artwork view. Architectural facade representing a pedestal with podium opened by little arches under which is a pond, where ducks are swimming; on the platform, erects a gate delineated by ionic alabaster columns; through the door, can be glimpsed a sightseing on a doric temple; in front of the temple, two female figures offer flowers and fruits to the statue of Venus Anadyomene; at both sides of the gate, two red partition walls above which overlook two masks, and where are hanged two fishes and three partridges as gifts to the divinities; beyond the porches, supported by ribbed Ionic columns, are five fountains with mouth as lion-shaped protomes, from which gushes water in the underlying marble basin, above which two little arcades open, and from which can be seen glimpses of a garden with trees; from VI Insula Occidentalis.