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Wall painting on black ground: Aedicula with small landscape, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase

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Wall painting on black ground: Aedicula with small landscape, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase

Period:
Early Imperial, Augustan
Date:
last decade of the 1st century B.C.
Culture:
Roman, Pompeian
Medium:
Fresco
Dimensions:
Overall: 91 3/4 x 45in. (233.1 x 114.3cm)
Classification:
Miscellaneous
Credit Line:
Rogers Fund, 1920
Accession Number:
20.192.1

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 167

  • References

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1987. Greece and Rome. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 75, pp. 102-3.

    Knauer, Elfriede R. 1990. "Wind Towers in Roman Wall Paintings." Metropolitan Museum Journal 25: pp. 5-6, fig. 1.

    Knauer, Elfriede R. 1993. "Roman Wall Paintings from Boscotrease: Three Studies in the Relationship between Writing and Painting." Metropolitan Museum Journal 28: pp. 13-15, figs. 1, 4, 11, 18.

    Milleker, Elizabeth J., ed. 2000. The Year One: Art of the Ancient World East and West. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 27, pp. 46-47, 205.

    Picón, Carlos A., et al. 2007. Art of the Classical World in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 399, pp. 342-3, 484.

    Squire, Michael. 2011. The Iliad in a Nutshell: Visualizing Epic on the Tabulae Ilicae. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 262-64, fig. 129.

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