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THE 'CAMP-STOOL FRESCO'
Alterna-
tion of
Coloured
Fields.
Mostly
seated
male
figures.
of that earlier class of wall paintings, of which such a rich series of frag-
ments occurred in the ' House of the Frescoes V
To add variety to the effect, the successive pictorial bands of the frieze
were divided vertically into
fields of different colours, a
practice of which we have other
examples from Minoan wall-
paintings. This is clearly shown
in the case of the blue ground be-
hind the seated lady (PI. XXXI,
e), where part of the border of
the adjoining" orange field is
visible on the same stucco frag-
ment. The seated boy, d, has
been conjecturally placed imme-
diately behind the female figure,
its orange background being
assumed to belong to that seen
on the border of E. According
to the analogy supplied by e
and c, we may infer that both of these subjects belonged to facing couples.
The alternation of colouring was also carried out in relation to upper
and lower zones. Thus we see the small fragment, a, with its blue ground
placed above the orange field of the subject in the row below. Another
small fragment (Fig. 31S), not illustrated in the Plate, shows two feet
of an apparently standing male figure on an orange ground, while imme-
diately below this is the upper part of a male head with a blue back-
ground.
The painted stucco fragments belong to at least twelve persons,2 nine
of them apparently seated. From the traces in three cases of folding-chairs,
with legs that must certainly have been of metal-work, the general name ot
' Camp-Stool Frescoes' has been given to this group. The upper surfaces
of these stools, which probably consisted of leather, was covered with what
may be recognized as woollen fleeces, not improbably of sacrificial animals.
Fig. 318. Fragment showing Part of Two
Fresco Zonks, the Background of the Upper,
Orange, of the Lower, Blue. ({)
1 See especially P. of A/., ii, Pt. II: Stippl.
PL XX.
■ Besides the fragments shown on the
Coloured Plate XXXI there were two small
pieces. One shows the feet turned left of a
seated youth, wearing a long robe with a blue
border, and part of a white and a red band
of the outer border below. The other is given
in Fi
THE 'CAMP-STOOL FRESCO'
Alterna-
tion of
Coloured
Fields.
Mostly
seated
male
figures.
of that earlier class of wall paintings, of which such a rich series of frag-
ments occurred in the ' House of the Frescoes V
To add variety to the effect, the successive pictorial bands of the frieze
were divided vertically into
fields of different colours, a
practice of which we have other
examples from Minoan wall-
paintings. This is clearly shown
in the case of the blue ground be-
hind the seated lady (PI. XXXI,
e), where part of the border of
the adjoining" orange field is
visible on the same stucco frag-
ment. The seated boy, d, has
been conjecturally placed imme-
diately behind the female figure,
its orange background being
assumed to belong to that seen
on the border of E. According
to the analogy supplied by e
and c, we may infer that both of these subjects belonged to facing couples.
The alternation of colouring was also carried out in relation to upper
and lower zones. Thus we see the small fragment, a, with its blue ground
placed above the orange field of the subject in the row below. Another
small fragment (Fig. 31S), not illustrated in the Plate, shows two feet
of an apparently standing male figure on an orange ground, while imme-
diately below this is the upper part of a male head with a blue back-
ground.
The painted stucco fragments belong to at least twelve persons,2 nine
of them apparently seated. From the traces in three cases of folding-chairs,
with legs that must certainly have been of metal-work, the general name ot
' Camp-Stool Frescoes' has been given to this group. The upper surfaces
of these stools, which probably consisted of leather, was covered with what
may be recognized as woollen fleeces, not improbably of sacrificial animals.
Fig. 318. Fragment showing Part of Two
Fresco Zonks, the Background of the Upper,
Orange, of the Lower, Blue. ({)
1 See especially P. of A/., ii, Pt. II: Stippl.
PL XX.
■ Besides the fragments shown on the
Coloured Plate XXXI there were two small
pieces. One shows the feet turned left of a
seated youth, wearing a long robe with a blue
border, and part of a white and a red band
of the outer border below. The other is given
in Fi