Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Satyr embracing a Maenad
Alternate Title:
Satiro che abbraccia una Menade
Image View:
Overall view
Creator:
unknown (Roman (ancient))
Location:
repository: Museo Archeologico Nazionale (Naples, Campania, Italy) 110590
Location Note:
Piazza Museo 19; Secret Cabinet (Gabbinete or Gabinetto Segreto)
GPS:
40.853378 14.250486
Date:
ca. 50-79 CE (creation)
Cultural Context:
Roman (ancient)
Style Period:
Imperial (Roman)
Work Type 1:
fresco (painting)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
pigment on plaster
Technique:
fresco painting (technique)
Subjects:
mythology (Classical); Dionysus (Greek deity)
Description:
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 Casa di Caecilius Jucundus (V 1, 26) in Pompeii. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection:
Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A3-R-NAM-XC-EC5-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Satyr embracing a Maenad