Tour Capri

The many marble and bronze statues are satyrs and putti Cupids and are ali fountain statuettes the water passed through lead pipes, filled the pools and sprayed out of the fountains, forming magnificent water dispiays. The triclinium is in the main part of the covered arcade and from it there is a magnificent view of this beautiful garden. Not to be missed is the decoration of this luxurious triclinium. The red back-ground of the walls is divided by large black pillars which seem to copy the arches of a loggia nearby because of the curves on the upper parts of the pillars. The pictures which occupied the centrai square of each wall were probably pain-ted on wood and have been destroyed. Most of the decora-tion of the lower part of the wall, in the miniature style, stili remains, however. On the cornice bordering the plinth there is a series of sce-nes of Cupids performing and selling flowers Cupids preparing and selling oils and perfumes a chariot race Cupid goldsmiths and metal workers Cupids washing and dyeing Cupids gathering grapes, the triumph of Bacchus and Cupids at a wine market. Beneath, near the pillars are panels with groups of Psyches and finally, in the centrai squares of the long walls are panels with mythological subjects. On the right hand wall Agamemnon about to kill the deer sacred to Artemis and Apollo slaying the python. On the left hand wall Orestes and Pylades in front of 58 rhoas and lphigenia. In the red side panels there are romantic couples from myths and legends Perseus and Andromeda, Dionysius and Ariadne, Apollo and Diana and Poseidon and Amymone. In one of the rooms to the north-east there is a plinth with imitation marble, three paintings at the centre of the walls, groups of Bacchants, mock architecture and panels containing seascapes.