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Girls Playing with Milk Vetches, by unknown artist, 20-37, 1st Century B.D. - 1st Century...

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MEB1191216
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Girls Playing with Milk Vetches, by unknown artist, 20-37, 1st Century B.D. - 1st Century A.D., painting on marble, 49 x 42 cm
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Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples, Campania, Italy
Medium
painting on marble
Date
20 AD (C1st AD)
Dimensions
49x42 cms
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Whole artwork view. Representation of the moment preceeding the slaughter of the Niobids; in the close-up, Aglaia and Ilaria, two of Niobe's daughters, play astragals, rudimentary dice made of animal neck vertebra; in the foreground the mother of the two maiden is persuaded by Phoebe, the Moon goddess, to beg Lathona's pardon; Apollo's and Artemis' mother, on the left, who wraps herself around her mantle, hurt by the words of Niobe's words; above on the left is the sign of the author - SKETCH BY ALEXANDER ATHENIENSIS - placed on three lines, while nearby each character is written his name, according to an Augustian Age archaism; from Ercolano.

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Mondadori Portfolio/Electa/Luigi Spina / With permission of the Italian Ministry of Culture / Bridgeman Images
Image keywords
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Largest available format 4696 × 5040 px 31 MB
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Large 4696 × 5040 px 398 × 427 mm 30.6 MB
Medium 954 × 1024 px 81 × 87 mm 2.5 MB

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