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The Sala dell'Aurora is only 5 m high, and the painted architecture provides the illusion of much greater height. It takes up the floor plan arrangement, but reinterprets it to open up two views above the long sides. Here the imaginary architecture gives way to landscape prospects behind painted balustrades. In one - shown here - there is a building , rendered in extreme foreshortening and with cypresses to one side and amphorae decoratively placed on the parapet. It evokes a Roman villa of the type owned by Ludovisi.
The fictive architecture was painted by Agostino Tassi.
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