Category:Achilles and Chiron fresco from the Basilica (Herculaneum)
English: Achilles and the centaur Chiron, National Archaeological Museum of Naples (inv. No. 9109). From Herculaneum, Augusteum (so-called Basilica) - The fresco shows the centaur Chiron, Achilles' pedagogue, who teaches the still-young hero the use of the lyre. The prototype for this fresco was not another painting but a statue that Pliny the Elder remembers was exhibited in Rome in the Saepta Iulia.
Italiano: Achille e il centauro Chirone, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (inv. nr. 9109). Da Herculaneum, Augusteum (cd. Basilica) - L'affresco mostra il centauro Chirone, pedagogo di Achille, che insegna all'eroe ancora giovinetto l'uso della lira. Il prototipo per questo affresco non è stato un altro dipinto ma una statua che Plinio il Vecchio ricorda era esposta a Roma nei Saepta Iulia.
fresco in Augusteum, so-called Basilica, Ercolano, Italy | |||||
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Location | Augusteum, so-called Basilica, Ercolano, Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania, Italy | ||||
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Media in category "Achilles and Chiron fresco from the Basilica (Herculaneum)"
The following 9 files are in this category, out of 9 total.
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Delle antichità di Ercolano, 1757-1779 (T. I-VII) 10067 (23701206876).jpg 2,881 × 4,011; 3.2 MB
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The antiquities of Herculaneum (1773) (14797305453).jpg 2,256 × 3,201; 3.34 MB
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Achilles and Chiron fresco from the Basilica (Herculaneum).jpg 1,713 × 1,684; 1.32 MB
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Achilleus Lyra.jpg 1,920 × 1,906; 1,010 KB
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Chiron instructs young Achilles - Ancient Roman fresco.jpg 771 × 800; 139 KB
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Herculanum-basilica-Chiron.jpg 2,180 × 2,041; 1.26 MB