Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART: Wedding of Zeus and Hera
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Wedding of Zeus and Hera
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Image View:
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Overall view of panel without frame
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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) 9559
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Location Note:
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Piazza Museo Nazionale, 19; Room LXXII
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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 BCE (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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153 cm (height) x 130 cm (width)
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Description:
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From House of the Tragic Poet (Casa del Poeta Tragico), Pompeii (VI, 8, 3.5, atrium). Six of the over twenty fresco panels in the house were removed to the Naples Museum; these were all from the eastern, better-reserved side of the house. This panel would have been the first one seen upon entering the atrium and depicts Zeus and Hera on Mount Ida. Zeus persuades his bride to lift her veil and reveal her face, which she turns towards the viewer. This scene is also depicted in a metope from Hera's fifth century BCE Temple at Selinus and celebrates the passage in a woman's life, from invisibility to exposure, virginity to marriage. (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-WZH-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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