Fragment of a Fresco with the Poet as King

n.d. (modern) L: 9 3/4 in. (24.7 cm) Citation Source image

This fresco is brown, white, blue and yellow, and within a border depicts a man and woman standing. Skene is kneeling and writing with the left hand under a mask. This figure is copied from the "Poet as King" fresco from Herculaneum in Naples. Under the paint, there are traces...

Artifact

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27610
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Joseph Brummer [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1922 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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1
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