There is something innate in human beings that inspires us to decorate our living spaces. As historical examples, we could look as far back as the cave paintings at Altamira or Lascaux, after all they were the spaces where our ancestors lived. Later, there are the wall paintings in the palace at Knossos, Crete, or those at the Villa of Poppaea Sabina, Nero's wife, in Oplontis, present day Torre Annunziata in Sicily. During the Renaissance and Baroque periods, the walls of palaces and convents became large blank spaces to be covered with a profusion of figures, architectural elements, still-lifes and so on, giving each space its own particular character.
Today, we find it commonplace to decorate our surroundings without realizing it is part of an ancestral ritual rooted in ageold traditions from our various cultural backgrounds. The need to personalize our surroundings and
