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Source Description
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 of other colors.
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Document identity
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27610
label
Fragment of a Fresco with the Poet as King
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obj
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object
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1
Source metadata
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27610
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object
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normalized
title
Fragment of a Fresco with the Poet as King
description
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 of other colors.
provenance
Joseph Brummer [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1922 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
n.d. (modern)
citationUrl
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CC0
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en
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frescoes
fragments
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1
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
L: 9 3/4 in. (24.7 cm)
Source extras
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Roman
med
brown, white, blue and yellow colors on plaster
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6191
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ROM
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none
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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6a2b8120e7a0b730