Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Earthenware Oil Lamps in the Form of Macrophallic Bearded Satyrs
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Image View:
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Group of three hanging lamps; one on left is inventory number 27732
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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) 27732
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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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before 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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figurine
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Work Type 2:
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oil lamp
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Classification:
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Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
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Material:
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terracotta
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Technique:
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fabrication attributes: ceramics; modeling (forming)
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Subjects:
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decorative arts; 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. These terracotta macrophallic Pans or Fauns were hanging lamps; phallic imagery like this was an apotropaic device for protection, and so was common both publicly and privately. Sometimes caricature was used because provoking laughter was also thought to ward away an evil force. (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-EL-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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