The grotesques are the decorations that completely covered the walls of the apartments of Rome of the 1st century BC This decor consists of illusionist architectures, scenes with characters, landscapes, windings of foliage that replace the columns , candelabra formed of tempietti, canopies composed of windings of leaves and flowers, fantastic figures, half human, half animal, which are born of foliage. "The tradition interests me only if it is transcribed in the contemporary world." It is through this world that Jerome...