Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Agrippa's Villa of the Farnesina: Vividarium L
Image View:
Overall view of the three panels of the south wall
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:
garden
Classification:
painting
Material:
pigment on plaster
Technique:
fresco painting (technique)
Description:
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). This was a true hortus conclusus (enclosed garden). The walls that surrounded the real garden were decorated with a painted garden, like an extension of the real one. The three panels decorated the south wall. (Source: Area Archeology of Rome [website]; http://archeoroma.be niculturali.it/en/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A3-R-PM-VF-VL-A01
Rights:
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Agrippa's Villa of the Farnesina: Vividarium L