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Wall Painting Fragment with Vegetal Motif
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This fragment of wall painting depicts a red panel with a black register beneath it, separated by a white band. In the central red section is a repeating pattern of vegetal motifs, rendered in light yellow paint with a thin brush. A white band along the top of the fragment depicts a series of teardrops, which have been left unpainted so that the red ground shows through.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Fausto Benedetti Rome (by 1925) gift; to Fogg Art Museum 1925.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Fausto Benedetti
Title: Wall Painting Fragment with Vegetal Motif
Description:
This fragment of wall painting depicts a red panel with a black register beneath it, separated by a white band.
In the central red section is a repeating pattern of vegetal motifs, rendered in light yellow paint with a thin brush.
A white band along the top of the fragment depicts a series of teardrops, which have been left unpainted so that the red ground shows through.
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