THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Architecture | Rome | Villa Farnesina
1. ARCHITECTURE. Rome.
Villa Farnesina (ground-plan).
R. Lanciani. Forma Urbis Romae, tav. XIV-XX-XXVII.
Rome.
2. APPLIED ART. Rome.
Sacral-idyllic landscape.
Stucco vault relief from the cubiculum B of a house beneath the Villa Farnesina.
Ca. 20 BCE.
Inv. No. 1037.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.
3. APPLIED ART. Rome.
Ritual lighting of torches from the altar.
Stucco vault relief from the cubiculum B of a house beneath the Villa Farnesina.
Ca. 20 BCE.
Inv. No. 1037.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.
4. APPLIED ART. Rome.
Initiation into the Mysteries.
Stucco vault relief from the cubiculum B of a house beneath the Villa Farnesina.
Ca. 20 BCE.
Inv. No. 1072.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.
5. APPLIED ART. Rome.
Sacral-idyllic landscape.
Stucco vault relief from the cubiculum B of a house beneath the Villa Farnesina.
Ca. 20 BCE.
Inv. No. 1072.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.