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This room is entirely frescoed
in a romantic concept of Greco-Roman antiquities. The room is
a partially tented-over archeological site and suggests a Mediterranean
landscape of vistas and ruins which is an excuse for Marchiori
to represent various myths. The entire room is masterful trompe
loeil painting. On the ceiling is Icarus falling, while
the walls depict Prometheus bound, the Minotaur, Venus, Poseidon,
Pan, a large head of Oedipus with the Sphinx whispering in his
ear, the two faces of Janus, and the Trojan horse.
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