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Scene from a comedy by Pliny. A servant in comic mask makes an insulting gesture of horns (with his index and little fingers raised) to two women. Vignette of three tragic masks below. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1790.
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Caption:
Scene from a comedy by Pliny. A servant in comic mask makes an insulting gesture of horns (with his index and little fingers raised) to two women. Vignette of three tragic masks below. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1790.
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Album / Florilegius
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Image size:
4455 x 6211 px | 79.2 MB
Print size:
37.7 x 52.6 cm | 14.8 x 20.7 in (300 dpi)
Keywords:
ANTICHITA DI ERCOLANO • ANTIQUITIES OF HERCULANEUM • ART • ARTS • CLASSIC • COMÉDIES • COMEDY • COMIC MASK • COMIC • COPPERPLATE • CULT • ENGRAVED • ENGRAVING (ARTWORK) • ENGRAVING • ENGRAVING. • ENGRAVINGS • ETCHING • FINGER • FINGERS • FRESCO • GESTURE • HORNS • INDEX • INSULT • LEGEND • LITTLE • MYTHOLOGY • PAINTING • PLINY • POMPEI • POMPEII • PRINT • RITE • RITUAL • ROME • SERVANT • TOMMASO PIROLI • TRAGIC MASK • VIGNETTE • WATER • WOMAN • WOMEN • WOMENS
