Historia Naturalis, 35.173 (49)

Item

Text Category
Literature: prose See all items with this value
Century Range
1st century CE See all items with this value
Location of Display
Rome See all items with this value
Author
Pliny the Elder See all items with this value
Reference
Historia Naturalis, 35.173 (49)
Language
Latin See all items with this value
Quotation
Lacedaemone quidem latericiis parietibus excisum opus tectorium propter excellentiam picturae ligneis formis inclusum Romam deportavere in aedilitate ad comitium exornandum Murena et Varro.
Part of Speech
Gerund See all items with this value
Type of Thing Ornamented
Architecture: Building: Civic Building See all items with this value
Object/ Person Ornamented
Comitium, Rome
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Visual Work: Painting: Wall Painting See all items with this value
Visual Work: Painting: Panel Painting See all items with this value
Medium/a Ornamenting
Figural wall painting on plaster and brick, cut from the wall and set in a wooden frame
Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting
Murena and Varro (aediles)
Notes
cp. Cicero, In Verrem, 2.4.133 (59); De domo sua, 111 (43); De natura deorum, 1.22 (9).
Item Identifier
A00287
Determination
Derived directly from text
Item sets
1st century CE
Pliny the Elder
Architecture (Ornamented)
Painting
Civic Building
Building
Panel Paintings
Wall Paintings
Wall Painting - Ornamenting - Definite