Sunday 19 October 2014



Museum of Ancient Paintings, Portici



We stumbled across this painting and thought we would share it with you all.


The Portici museum must have been a sight to see, if all those paintings were on display as shown.


That is assuming you could get a "permesso" to enter.


The painting is titled:
Museum of Ancient Paintings, Palais of Portici Naples. 
It is a painting by Thomas Rowlandson c 1800.
The Victoria and Albert Museum describe it as:
A satirical watercolour showing a woman with three young men looking at wall frescoes.
Two older men stand behind the group.
Rowlandson shows a woman admiring a display of risqué Roman fresco paintings while the men surrounding her all look lecherously at her. 
The crux of the satire is whether their visit is a cultural or erotic pastime.


Photo © Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Museum inventory number DYCE.799.



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