Fresco_of_a_woman_in_profile,_possible_portrait_bust_of_Cleopatra_VII_of_Egypt,_from_the_House_of_the_Orchard_at_Pompeii.jpg
Summary
Description Fresco of a woman in profile, possible portrait bust of Cleopatra VII of Egypt, from the House of the Orchard at Pompeii.jpg |
English:
An ancient Roman fresco from the House of the Orchard in Pompeii, Italy, dated to the 1st century AD, depicting the bust of a woman in a frame, wearing a necklace a cloth headband over her hair, perhaps a Hellenistic Greek royal diadem.
In relation to another potentially posthumous portrait of Cleopatra VII of Egypt painted at roughly the same time in Roman Herculaneum, Walker, Susan; Higgs, Peter (2001), "325 Painting with a portrait of a woman in profile", in Walker, Susan; Higgs, Peter (eds.), Cleopatra of Egypt: from History to Myth , Princeton University Press (British Museum Press), ISBN 9780691088358 , pp. 314–315, describe this painting from the House of the Orchard, dating it to the Pompeian Third Style of the mid-1st century AD:
An alternative identification of the woman in the painting is suggested by Carratelli, Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli (1990), Pompeii: Pitture e Mosaici , vol. 2, Roma : Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, fig. 107, OCLC: 469686885 (language: Italian). In it, Carratelli describes the tufts of wavy hair draped around the temples and forehead of this feminine bust as being similar to portraits of Livia Drusilla, the wife of Roman emperor Augustus:
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Date | mid-1st century AD |
Source | Carratelli, Giovanni Pugliese (1990), Pompei : pitture e mosaici , vol. 2, Roma: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, OCLC: 469686885. |
Author | Anonymous ancient Roman painter |
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