Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Nilotic Landscape with Pygmies
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Nilotic Landscape with Pygmies
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Image View:
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Detail, two pygmies coupling under an awning, while a third pygmy plays the double flute
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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) 113196
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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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56 cm (height) x 217 cm (length)
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Subjects:
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animal; Dwarfs
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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 scene formed part of the internal decoration of a podium that surrounded the garden of the Casa del Medico (VIII, 5, 24) in Pompeii. The whole cycle depicts pygmies fighting crocodiles and hippopotamuses. In Hellenistic times "pygmies" represented the symbol of a remote exotic world, portrayed in its most grotesque and comic guises. (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-XC-NL-A02
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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