K. Palágyi Sylvia szerk.: Balácai Közlemények 2008/10. (Veszprém, 2008)

KIRCHHOF, ANITA: The decorative system and reconstruction of the red dining room at Baláca - A balácai vörös ebédlő dekorációs rendszere és rekonstrukciója

Red Dining Room Baláca, room No. 11. Unpublished Balatonfüred Two trees and a hind Length: 12-12,2 cm Length: approx. 19, 3 cm Length: approx. 24,5 cm (?) Bird Length: 6,4-7 cm Heigth: 4 cm Length. 8,7-9 cm Height. 3-3,5 cm Human figure Width: 2,4-2,7 cm Height including hat: 3,3-4,2 cm Width: approx. 88,7 cm Height: approx. 6 cm Dolphin Length: approx. 5 cm Height:approx.2,5 cm ? Hypocampus Length: 12,8-13 cm Hight: 3,8 cm ? exists Bottom-line exists exists Exists Shading With white on figures with blue ground colour With white on figures with blue ground and with a dark red-violet colour at other places With white on figures with blue ground The determination of the length of picture fields is possible on the basis of the order of motifs and of their repeated occurrence on the fragments as well as with the consideration of the Roman proportions. We may make the comparison on the basis of the two stucco decorations from Baláca, because these two paintings were made within the same period by the same team of painters. The similarities regarding the dimensions and elaboration which can observed in the painting at the forelegs of the jumping deers/horse and at the birds on the green background and at the plant patterns are proofs of this idea. The painting of the foliage of the trees against the red background was made also in a similar manner, that is by painting U- and V-shaped forms. An incidental difference is the presence of shading on the stucco found in the room No. 11. at Baláca where also the shadow of the tree to the right of the tree is painted by dark colours (dark red or lilac) and shading is present also on the representations of the animals, suggesting that the direction of the "procession" of the scenes on the picture fields was opposite to that of the lighting of the room. (Fig. 26.) According to my opinion the most plausible order of the picture bands was as follows: the red and green fields had been divided into three minor fields, the two lateral ones included repeated patterns and were shorter than the middle one which was wider therefore it was suitable to represent more complex scenes as well.

109 (Figs. 3.-4.,14.-15.) This order repeats the similar tripartition of the main field where also the middle panel is wider than the two other ones. From the red hunting scenes of the Red Dining Room we know the scenes of the deer grazing between two trees, the scene with the carrying of the quarry and its continuation could be also a deer between two trees as a third scene. If this idea is correct the estimated