Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Temple of Isis: Portico Frescoes
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Temple of Isis: Portico Frescoes
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Alternate Title:
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Tempio di Iside Frescos
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Image View:
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Detail, stylized vegetation on black background (inv. 8539)
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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)
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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. 62-79 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; Greco-Roman; 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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Subjects:
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deities; Egypt--Religion; Roman Empire
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Description:
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All the temples in Pompeii suffered significant damage in the earthquake of 62 CE; the Temple of Isis (VIII.7.28) had been rebuilt by 79 CE. It stood on a podium, its cella was surrounded by a peristyle of seven by eight columns, with four columns supporting the pediment of the pronaos. The temple was decorated with paintings in a Greco-Roman style with a number of Egyptianizing elements, representing the iconography, rituals and ceremonies in honor of Isis; a shrine to the child-god Harpocrates stands to the east. The followers of Isis in Pompeii formed one of the largest communities of her worshippers in the first century CE. The cult of Isis was part of the syncretic tendencies of religion in the Greco-Roman world of late antiquity; the Romans having acquired it from the Hellenistic Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
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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-TI-P-A17
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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