ALT ENGRAVING OF THE JUDGEMENT OF PARIS BY MARCANTONIO RAIMONDI, C. 1515. A complex Renaissance copperplate engraving depicting the Judgement of Paris, packed with classical figures in a deep landscape. In the lower right corner, a river god holding an oar looks back toward two seated nymphs. While Raphael and Raimondi took this grouping directly from the Villa Medici sarcophagus, they did not copy it faithfully. On the Roman relief, the figures are tightly compressed, their postures dictated by the physical constraints of the marble block. Raimondi opened up the composition, twisting the river god's torso outward to display fashionable Renaissance anatomical ideals and re-angling the nymphs to create a spacious, theatrical pyramid that breaks completely from the strict profile of the Roman original.

ALT VAULT FRESCO AND FRIEZE, DOMUS TRANSITORIA, C1 CE. PALATINE MUSEUM Two sections of a C1 CE Roman fresco. The upper delicate vault decoration is painted on a white ground with floral tendrils, stylised blossoms, golden medallions, and diamond lozenges with small figures. Rough cavities indicate missing elements; based on examples beneath the Cœnatio Jovis, these held blue glass hemispheres. Below this runs a continuous plaster frieze depicting a Dionysiac narrative. A draped Maenad on the left and a reddish nude Satyr on the right bracket a central group of figures. Originally in Room A2 next to the palace nymphaeum, the white vault and its blue glass inlays would have been animated by the light of playing water before the Great Fire of 64 CE.