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A Painter At Work

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From the House of the Surgeon, Pompeii. 1st century BCE–1st century CE. Fresco, 17-7/8" × 17-3/8" (45.5 × 45.3 cm). Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples.

A Painter at Work
This fresco once decorated the walls of a house in Pompeii.
The painter sits within a room that opens behind her to the outdoors, holding her palette in her left hand, a sign of her profession.
It was wall paintings like this one that were preserved for rediscovery by eighteenth-century archaeologists.
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