Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Polyphemus and Galatea Kissing
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Polyphemus and Galatea Kissing
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Image View:
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Detail, heads kissing
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Creator:
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unknown Roman
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Location:
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repository: Museo Archeologico Nazionale (Naples, Campania, Italy) 27687
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Location Note:
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Piazza Museo 19; Secret Cabinet (Gabbinete or Gabinetto Segreto)
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GPS:
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+40.853378+14.250486
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Date:
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ca. 50-79 CE (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Roman (ancient)
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Style Period:
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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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75 cm (height) x 82 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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human figure; mythology (Classical)
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Description:
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The Secret Cabinet (Gabbinete) or Secret Room is the name of the Bourbon Monarchy gave the private rooms in which they held their fairly extensive collection of erotic or sexual items, mostly deriving from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Limiting viewership and censorship have always been part of the history of the collection. Fresco from Pompeii, House of the Ancient Hunt (VII, 4, 48), from a sleeping chamber. Pompeiian bedrooms were not infrequently decorated with scenes referring to lovemaking, sometimes explicitly human, and sometimes allusive and mythological. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
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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-XC-EC1-A02
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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