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Wall Painting Fragment with Female Figure
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This fragment depicts the upper torso and head of a nude female figure on a plain red ground. The figure is in 3/4 profile with her torso facing front and her head turned to the right. A purple himation drapes off of her left shoulder and billows behind her back, an indication of her movement through space. Pink and white pigments model her fleshy abdomen, breasts, and face while an earthy ochre constitutes her hair, formed into a low chignon.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Fausto Benedetti Rome (by 1925) gift; to the Fogg Museum of Art 1925.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Fausto Benedetti
Title: Wall Painting Fragment with Female Figure
Description:
This fragment depicts the upper torso and head of a nude female figure on a plain red ground.
The figure is in 3/4 profile with her torso facing front and her head turned to the right.
A purple himation drapes off of her left shoulder and billows behind her back, an indication of her movement through space.
Pink and white pigments model her fleshy abdomen, breasts, and face while an earthy ochre constitutes her hair, formed into a low chignon.
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