GLI AFFRESCHI FRAMMENTARI DALLA C.D. VILLA DEL GIURISTA A SALONE (ROMA): INQUADRAMENTO STILISTICO CONTENUTI CRONOLOGIA

Abstract

The discovery of fragmentary wall paintings inside the villa of Salone allows to formulate hypotheses both regarding the
ownership of the villa itself (to be linked to the Scevola family) and regarding the function performed by the pictorial repertoire of
the late Republican age. This paper examines the content of various recognizable decorative patterns, starting with the
identification of a first style pictorial system, and then analyzing more in detail the patterns or motifs attributable to the second
style, of which some reconstructive hypotheses are proposed for the first time. The picture that emerges indicates the high level of
wall paintings, and, as regards the evidence of the second style, the particular role assumed by the paintings with instrumenta
scriptoria (with the related textual contents) in terms of communication and self-representation of the owners of the villa and of
their world of values.