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The ”First Style”
The ‘first style’ is also called the ‘structural style’. It is the artistic idiom of the Hellenistic world and is found in Pompei above all from the third to the first century B.C. The preparatory layer of stucco was designed and painted to imitate rectangular panels of various types of colored marble, not available in Italy, which were typical of patrician Greek residences. Large blocks are arranged horizontally above a dark skirting board, and a white stucco cornice crowns the wall at the top. If the ceiling was very high, an imitation loggia was inserted, accentuating the magnificence of the room.
