Again about the "Size":
"- Libertus eius cum daret Anti munus gladiatorum,
publicas portum occupavit pictura, ut constat, gladiatorum
ministrorumque omnium veris imaginibus redditis.
Hic multi iam saeculis summus animus in pictura, ..."
"- A freedman (of emperor Nero) was ordered to paint,
on the occasion of a show of gladiators at Antium,
the public porticos with paintings in which were represented
the gladiators in realistic real size portraits.
This of the realistic image is the highest goal in painting, ..."
Pliny the Elder- "Natural History"- book XXXV- chap 34
