Villa della Farnesina, Fresco with Theatrical Masks

Villa della Farnesina, Fresco with Theatrical Masks – I

            Theatrical masks as pictorial decoration; from an ambulacrum of a villa presumably belonged to Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Roman general friend of Augustus.
The pictorial frieze is supported by painted elegant caryatids. Slender columns divide the frieze into panels decorated with theatrical masks, rural landscapes, herms, sacred buildings, marine scenes, sea battles and natural elements such as birds and flowers. The paintings are very elegant; according to Pliny the Elder, they are attributable to Studius, a painter active during Augustus' reign.
These frescoes come from a rich Roman house discovered in 1879 during the consolidation of the banks of the Tiber River. It was excavated in Rome, in the garden of the Sixteenth-century Villa della Farnesina, from which takes its name. 
In the Augustan era, the building was a suburban villa and its construction is connected to events of Augustus' family. According to some scholars, the Roman villa was built on the occasion of the wedding of Vipsanius Agrippa and Augustus' niece Claudia Marcella (28 BC); according to other scholars, when Agrippa married Julia, daughter of the Princeps (19 BC).

Roman fresco
Late first century BC
From Rome, Villa della Farnesina garden
Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Massimo – Roma - Inv. 1230

   

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Taken on: December 7, 2019

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