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Poster: Magal's Italy, Naples, Naples Museum, from Pompeii, Woman Pain
Size: 24x18in Italy, Naples, Naples Museum, from Pompeii, Woman Painter and a Bust of BacchusWe have more Samuel Magal Posters. Choose from our catalog of over 500,000 posters!
Female (detail) behind the figure of the Bacchante in Scene VII, Villa of the Mysteries, Porta Ercolano, Italy
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Woman seated beneath a coffered ceiling, 1st century BC-1st century AD, Stabiae, Villa Arianna, fresco [The Power of the Hellenistic Influence on the Roman Villas of Pompeii]
The so-called 'Sappho fresco' from Pompeii. Discovered in 1760, the tondo actually depicts a well-healed woman with wax tablets and a stylus used for accounting. So, although I love the poetic association, it's far more likely she's filing her taxes than writing lyric verses. Either way, it's stunning. #sappho #fresco #pompeii #museoarcheologico #tondo