Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Fresco of Erotic Couple
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Fresco of Erotic Couple
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Image View:
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Overall view
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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) 110569
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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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Subjects:
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human figure; erotic art
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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. This fresco is from the north wall of the peristyle l between rooms o and p in the Casa di Caecilius Jucundus (V 1, 26) in Pompeii. The woman is wearing the strapless "bra" (strophium); even in the most explicit depictions of sex acts in Roman art, the woman is often wearing the strophium band. (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-EC3-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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