Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Four Columns with Mosaics
Image View:
Detail, base of column with fish scale ornamentation
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-A02
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Four Columns with Mosaics