Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Four Columns with Mosaics

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title: 
Four Columns with Mosaics
Image View: 
Detail, base of the column decorated wave motif and shells
Creator: 
unknown (Roman (ancient) mosaicist)
Location: 
repository: Museo Archeologico Nazionale (Naples, Campania, Italy) 9995; 9996; 10000; 10001
Location Note: 
Piazza Museo, 19
GPS: 
+40.853378+14.250486
Date: 
before 79 CE (creation)
Cultural Context: 
Roman (ancient)
Style Period: 
Imperial (Roman)
Work Type 1: 
column (architectural element)
Work Type 2: 
mosaic (visual work)
Classification: 
Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
Material: 
pasta vitrea (glass paste) tesserae
Technique: 
mosaic (process)
Subjects: 
decorative arts; Pompeii (Extinct city)
Description: 
From the Villa delle Colonne a mosaico (Villa of the Mosaic Columns), which lies just west of the town of Pompeii, outside the Porta Ercolano, on the east side of the street, street number: 12.15.
Collection: 
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier: 
7A3-R-NAM-CDC-A05
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.