Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Thetis in Hephaestus' workshop
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Thetis in Hephaestus' workshop
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Alternate Title:
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Teti e Efesto
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Image View:
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Overall view 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) 9529
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Location Note:
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Piazza Museo 19
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GPS:
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+40.853378+14.250486
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Date:
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ca. 60-79 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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Paintings
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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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159 cm (height) x 113 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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mythology (Classical); Homer. Iliad; Trojan War
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Description:
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The fresco, painted in Fourth Style, illustrates the Homeric episode of the eighteenth book of the Iliad, when the goddess Thetis, mother of the hero Achilles, went to the god Hephaestus to collect the weapons that she had commissioned for her son. The subject of the fresco seems to have been a particular favorite of the inhabitants of Pompeii, like other themes from the Iliad, since it also features in other houses in the town. The model that inspired the artists was almost certainly the work of a Hellenistic painter even though, as was often the case, Roman painters completely or partly re-worked the composition to suit the tastes of local patrons. From the House of Paccius Alexander (IX.1.7), discovered 1866. (Source: Naples National Archaeological Museum [website]; http://cir.campania.beniculturali.it/museoarcheologiconazionale)
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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7A3-R-NAM-PAS-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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