Rappresentazione e composizione delle imitazioni marmoree nella pittura di I stile dall’etruria romana

Before the introduction and diffusion of coloured “marbles” used for architectural decoration in Roman’s age, their imitation in mural painting is largely widespread, in Italy as well as all throughout the Mediterranean area. Among the various examples of the First Style in Etruria, which have been discovered until now and dated in the late second and in the early first century B.C., both in public buildings and in private houses, especially noteworthy are the mural decorations recently brought to light during the excavations of the so called Le Logge building at Populonia (Piombino-LI), both for the variegated marblings and structural articulation.