Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART: Bacchus and Vesuvius
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Bacchus and Vesuvius
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Image View:
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Overall view of panel
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Creator:
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unknown (Roman (ancient))
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Location:
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repository: Museo Archeologico Nazionale (Naples, Campania, Italy) 112286
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Location Note:
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Piazza Museo Nazionale, 19
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GPS:
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+40.8534+14.2505
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Date:
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ca. 40-79 CE (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Roman (ancient)
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Style Period:
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Fourth Style; Imperial (Roman)
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Work Type 1:
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fresco (painting)
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Classification:
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painting
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Material:
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pigment on plaster
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Technique:
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fresco painting (technique)
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Measurements:
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140 cm (height) x 102 cm (width)
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Description:
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Fourth style fresco with Bacchus/Dionysius depicted on the left and a high isolated mountain on the right (interpreted as Mount Vesuvius or Mount Nysa), its slopes covered with rows of vines growing over stakes. Bacchus, holding the thyrsus, is garlanded and clothed in a cluster of grapes, with a panther at his feet. The serpent that is so prominently displayed is Agathodaemon, the "good spirit" of vineyards and grain fields. The fresco was located in the lararium of the secondary atrium of the House of the Centenary. (Source: Naples National Archaeological Museum [website]; http://cir.campania.beniculturali.it/museoarcheologiconazionale)
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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7A3-R-NAM-BVE-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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