Harvard Art Museums > 1925.6.7: Wall Painting Fragment Fragments Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Wall Painting Fragment , 1925.6.7,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 22, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/292272. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1925.6.7 Title Wall Painting Fragment Classification Fragments Work Type wall painting fragment(s) Date 1st century BCE-1st century CE Places Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe Period Roman Republican period, Late, to Early Imperial Culture Roman Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/292272 Physical Descriptions Medium Pigment on plaster Technique Fresco painting Dimensions H. 9 x W. 10.5 x D. 2.5 cm (3 9/16 x 4 1/8 x 1 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History Fausto Benedetti, Rome (by 1925), gift; to the Fogg Museum of Art, 1925. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Fausto Benedetti Accession Year 1925 Object Number 1925.6.7 Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description This fragment depicts alternating waves of red, pink, and yellow, which radiate from a central yellow circle, outlined with a thin white border. Commentary The bright colors of this fragment are meant to imitate colorful marble and other stones that might have been used to decorate Roman interior spaces (1). This manner of decoration became popular in Rome during the late second century BCE when it represented generic stones or marble designs. Later panels can be recognized as specific marble-types such as giallo antico or porphyry. This style of painting is commonly referred to as the First Style, Masonry Style, or International Incrustation Style (2). It is found in earlier Greek painting (for example in the houses at Delos), but is most known from its appearance in the houses of the Vesuvian region. The style continues far beyond Pompeii and the first century CE into the Roman East where it is found at such sites as Zeugma and Sardis. Notes: 1. J. Clayton Fant, "Real and painted (imitation) marble at Pompeii," in the World of Pompeii, the Routledge worlds (London-Routledge 2007): 336-346. 2. For a review of Roman wall painting, including an accessible introduction to the First Style, consult Roger Ling, Roman Painting (Cambridge University Press, 1991). Exhibition History 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/20/2018 - 05/06/2018 Subjects and Contexts Roman Domestic Art Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
