^painted pilasters, which are found in some Italian houses. Themost conspicuous example of this is seen in the series of Odysseylandscapes discovered in the remains of a house on the Esquilinein 1840, now in the Vatican Library. These were painted on the Plate LXX 1 … 404 AET CHAP. VIII upper part of the Avall-surface, and divided from each other by redpilasters drawn in perspective, so that the spectator was led toplace himself before the central panel and imagine that he waslooking out on a continuous landscape. We read in Vitruvius—who describes the…
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