Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Blue Nympheum Niche
Alternate Title:
Ninfeo con nicchia blu
Image View:
Detail of fantastic architecture, coffered ceiling in perspective and swag
Creator:
unknown (Roman (ancient) mosaicist)
Location:
repository: Museo Archeologico Nazionale (Naples, Campania, Italy) 10014
Location Note:
Piazza Museo, 19
GPS:
40.853378 14.250486
Date:
before 79 CE (creation)
Cultural Context:
Roman (ancient)
Style Period:
Imperial (Roman); Third Style
Work Type 1:
aedicule
Work Type 2:
mosaic (visual work)
Classification:
Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
Material:
pasta vitrea (glass paste) tesserae
Technique:
mosaic (process)
Subjects:
animal; architecture; decorative arts; Pompeii (Extinct city)
Description:
From the Vesuvian area around Pompeii. The niche shows architectural detail, columns, coffered ceilings and decorative swags. At the bottom in a small center panel is a rooster with three pomegranates (or apples). It may have been part of the same nympheum along with the wall mosaic of a boxer, inventory 10010; they both share Third Style characteristics. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A3-R-NAM-NNFA-A03
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Blue Nympheum Niche