Wall painting fragment with lion
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Not on view at present
Where is “Wall painting fragment with lion” now? Collection: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.
Harvard Art Museums
Cambridge, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- Source
- The museum
About the painting
Brightly colored wall paintings often decorated the interior, and sometimes exterior, of Roman buildings. The fragment shown is just one small part of a much larger decorative scheme that would have covered an entire wall. Floating decoration, such as animals or human figures, are sometimes shown in the center of large, colored panels and are particularly frequent in paintings from the mid-first century CE.
Harvard Art Museums
Details
- Accession number
- 1943.9
In the catalog
Sources
- Harvard Art Museums
- Image: Harvard Art Museums — © President and Fellows of Harvard College
