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Painting that may show Rhea deceiving Saturn, or Ceres' secret child being given to the goddess Regina and the horse Arion, or perhaps the education of Achilles according to Homer. Copperplate engraved by Tommaso Piroli from his own "Antichita di Ercolano" (Antiquities of Herculaneum), Rome, 1789. Italian artist and engraver Piroli (1752-1824) published six volumes between 1789 and 1807 documenting the murals and bronzes found in Heraculaneum and Pompeii.
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Painting that may show Rhea deceiving Saturn, or Ceres' secret child being given to the goddess Regina and the horse Arion, or perhaps the education of Achilles according to Homer. Copperplate engraved by Tommaso Piroli from his own "Antichita di Ercolano" (Antiquities of Herculaneum), Rome, 1789. Italian artist and engraver Piroli (1752-1824) published six volumes between 1789 and 1807 documenting the murals and bronzes found in Heraculaneum and Pompeii.
Credit:
Album / Florilegius
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Image size:
6598 x 5214 px | 98.4 MB
Print size:
55.9 x 44.1 cm | 22.0 x 17.4 in (300 dpi)
Keywords:
1789 • ACHILLES • ANCIENT WORLD • ANTICHITÀ • ANTIGUEDAD • ANTIQUITIES • ANTIQUITY • ARION • ART • ARTFORM: BRONZEWORK • ARTFORM: FRESCO • ARTIST • ARTISTE • ARTS • BRONCE • BRONZE BRASS • BRONZE • BRONZES • CERES • CHILD • CIVILIZATION • COPPERPLATE • ENGRAVED • ENGRAVER • ENGRAVING (ARTWORK) • ENGRAVING • ENGRAVING. • ENGRAVINGS • EQUUS CABALLUS • ERCOLANO • ETCHING • FRENCH REVOLUTION (1789-99) • FRENCH REVOLUTION • FRENCH REVOLUTION,1789 • FRESCO • FRESH • GODDESS • GREEK MYTH: ACHILLES • GREEK MYTH: ODYSSEE • HERCULANEUM • HOMER • HOMER, ODYSSEE • HOMERO • HORSE • ITALIAN • LEGEND • MURAL PAINTING • MURAL • MYTH • ODYSSEE • ODYSSEE, HOMER • ODYSSEUS • PAINTING • PIROLI • POMPEI • POMPEII • PRINT • REGINA • RELIGION • REVOLUTION 1789, FRENCH • RHEA • ROMAN • ROMANO • ROME • SATURN • SCULPTED • SCULPTURE • SECRET • TOMMASO • ULYSSES • WALL PAINTING • WALL • WALLPAINTING • WAR, TROJAN: ACHILLES
