PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MR. & MRS. CHARLES W. NEWHALL, III
A ROMAN WALL-PAINTING FRAGMENT

CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.

細節
A ROMAN WALL-PAINTING FRAGMENT
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY A.D.
Preserving a tropaeum composed of a winged helmet with contoured cheek-pieces, a cuirass draped with a mantle and a baldric, a griffin-head scepter to the right
8½ in. (21.6 cm.) long
來源
Swiss Private Collection (J.B.), acquired prior to 1974.
with Jean-David Cahn, Basel, 2005.

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G. Max Bernheimer
G. Max Bernheimer

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A tropaeum is a monument set up with the arms of one's vanquished foe to commemorate victory in battle. By the Roman Period, the battle trophy was used publicly as political propaganda and eventually also privately as a recognizable and charged decorative motif.