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The Hall of the Adjutants, by analogy
to the Hall of the Trophies, is adorned with wall-paintings creating a continuous band, which bears the portraits of eponymous heroes of the Greek Revolution. They have been rendered in the technique of fresco and feature portraits in circular shape (tondo), in the type of medals.
Each one of them, 50.5 centimetres
in diameter, is inscribed with the name
of the portrayed, while they are connected with each other by decorative borders
and palmettes.
Their chronology must be placed around 1842-43, namely, parallel to the execution
in fresco of the adjoining Frieze of the Revolution in the Hall of the Trophies, during the completion of the internal ornamentation in the Palace of Otto.
Four of the depicted were then still alive, therefore their portrayal in life or,
in any case, with immediate knowledge
of their facial characteristics,
cannot be excluded.
For several, however, of the portraits it
is indicated that advantage has been taken
