Sujet

Cast of part of frieze showing a bucranium, garland, and rosette, late 18th-early 19th century. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Cast of part of frieze showing a bucranium, garland, and rosette, Temple of Vesta, late 18th century-early 19th century. This cast includes a bucranium or bull's head with a garland and a rosette. Bull's heads or even the skulls of bulls were often used as decorative motifs as these animals were often killed as sacrifices in religious ceremonies. The cast is of an architectural detail of the Round Temple, or Temple of Vesta (early 1st century BCE), at Tivoli, near Rome.

Date

1775

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Royal Academy of Arts, London

Notre référence

HRM26A35_226

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

113.4Mo (9.6Mo) / 66.6cm x 42.6cm / 7869 x 5035 (300dpi)

Mots clés

nature animal Italy religious flower flowers plant plants arts country Rome religion temple shape sculpture art color decoration decorative bull Classical relief Roman location century floral artefact concept cast mould decorated artifact flowered frieze mold Plaster Cast Colour 19th century bas relief bas-relief Ancient Roman Ancient Rome nineteenth century Temple of Vesta Vesta Temple 1st century BC object sculpture Unknown plaster 19th-century Royal Academy of Arts