Title

Ceiling decoration, Pompeii, Italy, (1928). Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Ceiling decoration, Pompeii, Italy, (1928). '1st Half of 1st Century A.D...from the "Villa of Diomides"...the largest private house in Pompeii'. After Antonio Niccolini. Plate XXXVI, fig 84, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. [Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928]

Date

1928

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19G24_270

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

47,5Mb (5,9Mb) / 11,8in x 15,7in / 3525 x 4711 (300dpi)

Keywords

city building buildings interior house houses architecture orange arts painting pattern book color design decoration decorative archaeology Pompeii mural location ceiling century archaeological inside symmetry fresco geometric interior design literature concept archaeological site mythology symmetrical winged horse archeology twenties interior decoration Architectural Feature Colour Patterned mythical creature Indoors 1920s orange colour 20th century Ancient Roman Ancient Rome Ancient city The Print Collector mythical beast lithograph Unknown Bossert 1st century AD Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration Helmuth Theodor Bossert Hellmut Theodor Helmuth Theodor Helmuth Hellmut Theodor Bossert Helmuth Bossert Ernst Wasmuth Verlag Wasmuth Verlag Ernst Ernst Wasmuth Ltd Wasmuth Ltd Antonio Niccolini Niccolini Antonio Villa of Diomides