Sujet

Fresco Fragment with Nilotic Landscape, A.D. 1-79. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Fresco Fragment with Nilotic Landscape, A.D. 1-79. Additional Info: In a scene set on the banks of the Nile River in Egypt, a crocodile moves through a cluster of rushes and sneaks up on a small figure rowing a boat beside a thatched hut and a scraggly palm tree. In the background is an impressionistic rendering of a bridge and a colonnaded portico supporting various buildings in Greco-Roman architectural style. The remains of a red border are preserved at the top and bottom of the fragment, and an additional, darker stripe along the bottom edge may have been the frame of another scene below.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM24A66_252

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

62,2Mo (2,0Mo) / 37,1cm x 42,0cm / 4384 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation river animal wildlife Italy Italian people predator landscape boat boats painting country Rome reptile reptiles bridge bridges geography color Nile crocodile crocodiles structure Roman location century rowing boat antiquity fresco PLASTER river nile one person rowboat antiquities decorative arts Colour water transport the Nile Ancient Roman Ancient Rome Greco-Roman 1st century geographical feature Graeco-Roman tempera object Unknown plaster 1st century AD Painting Heritage Art Fresco Fragments Tempera on plaster (fresco)