Wall painting: Perseus and Andromeda in landscape, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase

Period:
Augustan
Date:
last decade of the 1st century B.C.
Culture:
Roman
Medium:
Fresco
Dimensions:
H. 62 3/4 in. (159.39 cm.) width 46 3/4 in. (118.75 cm.)
Classification:
Miscellaneous
Credit Line:
Rogers Fund, 1920
Accession Number:
20.192.16
  • Description

    From the villa of Agrippa Postumus at Boscotrecase, the Mythological Room (19)
    Landscape with Perseus and Andromeda

  • References

    Richter, Gisela M.A. 1926. "The Classical Collection: Rearrangement and Important Accessions." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 21(4), pt. II: p. 11.

    Knauer, Elfriede R. 1993. "Roman Wall Paintings from Boscotrease: Three Studies in the Relationship between Writing and Painting." Metropolitan Museum Journal 28: pp. 28-29, fig. 37.

    Milleker, Elizabeth J., ed. 2000. The Year One: Art of the Ancient World East and West. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 29, pp. 49, 205.

    Bruno, Vincent J. 2002. “Color in Hellenistic Painting.” In Color in Ancient Greece: The Role of Color in Ancient Greek Art and Architecture 700-31 B.C., eds. Michales A. Tiverios and Despoina Tsiafakis. Thessaloniki: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, pp. 216-17, fig. 5.

    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. 403, pp. 348-49, 485.

    Small, Jocelyn Penny. 2008. “Visual Copies and Memory.” In Orality, Literacy, Memory in the Ancient Greek and Roman World, ed. E. Anne Mackay. Leiden: Brill, pp. 239-241, fig. 9.

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