Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Wedding of Zeus and Hera
Image View:
Detail, Hera with a winged figure behind her
Creator:
unknown (Roman (ancient))
Location:
repository: Museo Archeologico Nazionale (Naples, Campania, Italy) 9559
Location Note:
Piazza Museo Nazionale, 19; Room LXXII
GPS:
40.8534 14.2505
Date:
ca. 40-79 BCE (creation)
Cultural Context:
Roman (ancient)
Style Period:
Fourth Style; Imperial (Roman)
Work Type 1:
fresco (painting)
Classification:
painting
Material:
pigment on plaster
Technique:
fresco painting (technique)
Measurements:
153 cm (height) x 130 cm (width)
Description:
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/mus eoarcheologiconazion ale)
Collection:
Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A3-R-NAM-WZH-A03
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Wedding of Zeus and Hera