About the Artwork
The rooms of Roman houses of the first century were frequently covered with painted fresco decoration. In one style, continuous scenes covered the walls; in another, smaller scenes were framed against a solid background; and in the third style, delicate individual motifs, like this candelabrum, were used. The very tall, fanciful candleholder, ornamented with leaves, would have been an elegant echo in paint of a real bronze one that would have lighted the room.
Section of a Wall Painting
between 25 and 75 CE
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Roman
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Plaster and pigment
Framed: 104 × 20 × 4 5/8 inches (264.1 × 50.8 × 11.7 cm)
Paintings
Greco-Roman and Ancient European
Founders Society Purchase, Hill Memorial Fund
70.649
Public Domain
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Provenance
(Andre Emmerich Gallery);1970-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Henshaw, Julia P., ed. A Visitors Guide: The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1995, p. 118 (ill.).
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Roman, Section of a Wall Painting, between 25 and 75 CE, plaster and pigment. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Hill Memorial Fund, 70.649.
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