Closeup of a fresco with a window, branch, fillet, and painted panel

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Closeup of a fresco with a window, branch, fillet, and painted panel
Closeup of a fresco with a window, branch, fillet, and painted panel

This recently excavated wall painting from the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaneum decorated a sumptuous room that opened onto a portico facing the sea. A leafy tendril, wrapped with a fluttering yellow fillet, is shown growing through a window. Above, a cornice supports a panel painting displayed between shutters, depicting an elegantly dressed woman with her hand on her hip. A second cornice preserves a Medusa head.

The fanciful architecture is rendered skillfully with perspectival drawing and variation of light and shadow.

Roman
40-30 BCE
Villa dei Papiri, Herculaneum
Found south of the atrium, in room g, 1997

Parco Archeologico di Ercolano

Photographed at the Getty Villa for the exhibition ‘ BURIED BY VESUVIUS: Treasures from the Villa dei Papiri’

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Taken on: October 5, 2019
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