Mmonly found on classical Greek funerary monuments were: images of domestic scenes, mostly depicting women. I hope this information and the pictures at the referenced site are helpful in answering your question
A. there was an awful mold which grew on the paintings and the walls, but seems to be in remission now
Negative space in painting or drawing is a space everywhere in place and between the subjects of a portrait. It may be deceptive when the space about a focus, not the subject itself customs an provocative or artistically important shape and such shape occasionally is used to artistic outcome as the physical subject of the image. Using of negative space will relief your mind to focus on the spaces and help to confound your brain – reasonably that tries to recognize the whole thing it sees.