The subject of this painting is a woman's bust dressed in a square-necked plum-coloured tunic with a fringe of Greek design. No attribute goes with it. It is enclosed in a metal- looking medaillion which is bordered by an open-work fringe made of opposed S-shaped figures. This medallion is surrounded with a dense back-ground of leaves organised or not in « clusters », of flowers and of fruit, one of them apparently pecked by a fluttering bird. It is probably a portrait like those of the house of the Great Altar in Pompei, the medallion rather evokes the imago clipeata of the Oplontis villa, and the foliage back-ground the painted ceilings of the Casca Longus in Pompei or that of a door jamb in the Sparsholt baths (England).Le thème de cet...
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The subject of this painting is a woman's bust dressed in a square-necked plum-coloured tunic with a...
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Parmi sa collection de céramiques grecques, le Musée L (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique) possède quelques...
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National audienceLa prise en compte des enduits peints lors des opérations d'archéologie préventive ...
In the Aegean Bronze Age, wall painting always played a prominent role to mark architectural units. ...
Viollet-le-Duc conçoit tous les motifs peints qui couvrent les murs du château, en s’inspirant des p...
The subject of this painting is a woman's bust dressed in a square-necked plum-coloured tunic with a...
The elements of a mural decoration found in 1986 in the «rue de l'Abbé de l'Épée» in Paris include t...
The study of the fragmentary paintings permits us to considerably complete our knowledge of painted ...
Parmi sa collection de céramiques grecques, le Musée L (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique) possède quelques...
A roman mural painting at the hill-fort of Vié-Cioutat, in Mons-Monteils (Gard). Particularly favor...
Invention souvent attribuée à Aristide de Thèbes (IV e siècle avant J.-C.), la peinture à la cire (o...
Dessin à la mine de plomb, plume, lavis de couleur (20,2 x 25,2 cm)« Les édifices publics, dans cett...
Representation of glass is a recurrent theme in Roman paintings from the first until the second and ...
Abstract Fragments of painted plaster have been discovered in the filling of a pit on a rescue excav...
The House of the Nones of March, built in the period A.D. 35-45 near the forum of Limoges, is one of...
L’esame di nove composizioni identificate e provenienti da tre fasi di costruzione della casa della ...
Au cours d'une fouille de sauvetage à Béziers, place de la Madeleine, des enduits peints d'époque ro...
National audienceLa prise en compte des enduits peints lors des opérations d'archéologie préventive ...
In the Aegean Bronze Age, wall painting always played a prominent role to mark architectural units. ...
Viollet-le-Duc conçoit tous les motifs peints qui couvrent les murs du château, en s’inspirant des p...