ARTH 3102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Crocket, Phyllite, Bsc Young Boys
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Looking from room 4 into room 5. The theme of all the decoration is the sea n seafaring. All other items are seen from pro le. Nothing in this scene wold tell us this is exotic. Until we see the cat chasing after a goose or duck. Body of a lion with the head of an eagle. Guys swimming or drowning in the water. C/w homers shield or achilles lliad 18. Perhaps these soldiers are to display the end of their time. Along the river is a lion hunting deer. Attempt to show a full variety of things. One ship all people are rowing n one person is steering. One ship unlike th others it is not being rowing or paddled it is being sailed. Has a mask but is not being sailed. Center part of the room and covered the central part of the wall. Trompe l"oeil stone and the real thing.