A group of seven Roman fresco fragments, Roman Imperial, ca. 1st century AD Vessels - Faience `Aboriginal Art 2005`

`Aboriginal Art 2005`

was part of the 1976 Metropolitan Museum of Art's Treasures of Tutankhamun Exhibit

2020 Central Focus

Rebecca Hossack Gallery

A group of seven Roman fresco fragments, Roman Imperial, ca. 1st century AD Vessels - Faience `Aboriginal Art 2005`Delicately painted in blue, white, green, brown, red and yellow polychrome. These small fragments seem to belong to the second style of Roman painting, red panels representing highlight and shadow, decorated with vegetal interlaces. Some panels were probably framed by a red grenade fillet. Roman frescoes are the only surviving type of Roman painting, although literary references speak of painting on wood, ivory, and other materials. Frescoes were used