File:Dionysian fresco from the ancient Roman villa of P. Fannius Synistor, Boscoreale.jpg
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Fresco with Dionysian elements from the ancient Roman villa of P. Fannius Synistor in Boscoreale, near Pompeii
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English: This large painting fragment comes from the west wall of the exedra (Room L), opening off the rear of the villa's peristyle. A sacrificial bull's head (boukranion) originally occupied the center of the wall, from which an opulent garland of fruits and leaves is suspended to left and right against a brilliant wall of simulated masonry. Preserved are parts of four of the original five red slabs of the central zone, separated by golden bands and crowned by a white molding. There follows a course of alternating green and golden blocks that bears an elaborate entablature consisting of a white architrave, a purple frieze decorated with brackets in the form of bearded horned snakes with interlacing tails, and a white cornice. Hanging from a red cord tied in the bull's mouth is a wicker basket, the cista mystica, its lid removed to reveal a snake uncoiling from a bed of ivy. Suspended from the garland also in red cords are a cymbal and a satyr mask.
The elements in this fresco recall the cult of Dionysus and the Dionysian mysteries. Roman, late Republican, 50-40 BCE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (03.14.4) |
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