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Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Agrippa's Villa of the Farnesina: Bedroom (Cubiculum) B
Image View:
Detail, back wall with elaborate painted aedicula framing scene of the baby Dionysus
Creator:
unknown (Roman (ancient))
Location:
repository: Museo Nazionale Romano (Rome, Lazio, Italy)
Location Note:
Palazzo Massimo alle Terme; largo di Villa Peretti, 1
GPS:
41.901403 12.498216
Date:
ca. 25- 20 BCE (creation)
Cultural Context:
Roman (ancient)
Style Period:
Imperial (Roman); Second Style
Work Type 1:
fresco (painting)
Work Type 2:
cubiculum
Work Type 3:
stuccowork
Classification:
painting
Material:
pigment on plaster; stuccowork
Technique:
fresco painting (technique)
Description:
Around 20 BCE there began to be a reaction against the illusionistic tricks of the Second Style. Buildings are still depicted in the Farnesina House in Rome, commissioned ca. 25-20 BCE by the general Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, but they are increasingly attenuated and accompanied by new painted motifs: candelabra, a profusion of decorative stripes, and Egyptianizing motifs. The ancient villa was discovered under the grounds of the present Villa Farnesina in Trastevere in 1879, during maintenance works on the banks of the Tiber. In the exhibition space of Palazzo Massimo the restored frescoes have been recomposed within rooms of the original dimensions. The goal was to recreate, to the extent possible, walking through the long gallery of the cryptoporticus (hidden portico) as far as the garden, on which faced the winter triclinium (dining room) and two cubicola (bedchambers) with vermillion walls (made with expensive cinnabar red), thence reaching, through another corridor, a third cubiculum. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A3-R-PM-VF-BB-A03
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Agrippa's Villa of the Farnesina: Bedroom (Cubiculum) B